Ana-Sofia's mother was famous: Anna Davidoo - "Bird" - wartime refugee, fifties moview starlet, sixties party girl and drug-charged acolyte of the jazz greats. Anna abandoned her daughter to take vows as a Buddhist nun. Now at the age Anna was when she died, Ana-Sofia feels the need to return to India and Nepal, to confront ghosts of the past, and those who loved her mother. To find out who Anna was and how, in the end, she achieved her peace.