RUSTY had grown up wearing her best dresses to Sunday Mass at the church they attended in downtown London. She was the only daughter of JOHN and LINDA, an upper middle class white family residing in England. Yet in all her growing up years, she inexplicably was drawn to many facets of the PUNJABI INDIAN culture that was very abundantly on display at various corners of England. The music fascinated her, the aroma of spices, the fabric and the dresses, the colors everything seemed to have some kind of meaning to her though she could not explain why. LINDA seemed to avoid any conversation about INDIA and even JOHN who was an otherwise liberal man seemed to clam down on the mention of INDIA. Then one day RUSTY comes to know that, she was half-INDIAN and JOHN was actually her stepfather. LINDA had once been married to RANDHEER – a SIKH and RUSTY was their daughter. RANDHEER’s mother had refused to accept this relationship and had insulted LINDA when they had visited Punjab just before RUSTY was born. After that their marriage disintegrated, they divorced, and RANDHEER requested LINDA to raise RUSTY without telling her about her INDIAN origins for reasons best known to him. Traumatised RUSTY is drawn towards PUNJAB where she knows her biological father lives.

RUSTY lands in PUNJAB to a huge extended family completely hostile to her. Moreover, a culture that is so alien to her that she does not know whether she will survive another day here. RUSTY inherits not only the wrath of the family, she also inherits the decades old rivalries, and she inherits their pains, their angst, their hopes and their dreams. Though the family outwardly does not accept her but in true PUNJABI tradition she is a guest whose honor is sacrosanct and they would kill for her, though never talk to her. She gets embroiled in their charades, in their intrigues and in their pains, yet she is a far cry from being accepted. It is a journey for RUSTY from rationality and skepticism to accepting and understanding an emotional way of life. It does not talk about right and wrong, it just shows a way of life in all its dramatic hues. The choice to accept or reject is yours. And RUSTY falls in love with a PUNJABI boy whose name is AJIT. He has come back from abroad and is totally in love with his country and after meeting RUSTY they both want to spend the rest of the time together.

The novelty of this serial lies in the exploration of the way and life of pastoral and feudal PUNJAB. A PUNJAB on the verge of change and desperately tying to ward off the western influences, Punjabis desperately trying to hold on to their quaint cultural idioms, their ethos, their unshakeable belief in the hierarchy of social classes. Yet it is a PUNJAB, which is vibrant, celebratory, energetic full of passion and aggression.  The people who hate passionately, who love passionately, who live passionately, who will passionately defend what they believe is right and at the same time in a fit of passion will throw all the above mentioned passions out of the window and sacrifice themselves with the same passion. From her staid, BRITISH way of life RUSTY is thrown into a dramatic melting pot of high strung emotions and loud gregarious emotionality.