- A rebellious young woman with cerebral palsy leaves her home in India to study in New York, unexpectedly falls in love, and embarks on an exhilarating journey of self-discovery.
- Laila (Kalki Koechelin) is a teenager with cerebral palsy who uses a wheelchair. She is a student at Delhi University Ramjas college and an aspiring writer who writes lyrics and creates electronic sounds for an indie band at the university. Laila is talented & sexually active. She has sexual relations with another student Druv (Hussain Dalal), who is wheelchair bound, and who resents Laila for having normal friends like Sameera (Shuchi Dwivedi) and Nima (Tenzin Dalha). Laila is driven to and from the college campus by her mother Subhangini, in their family van. Laila's father (Kuljeet Singh) is also loving and understanding of her situation. She has a brother named Monu (Malhar Khushu). In college, Laila uses an electric powered wheelchair to move around. The school janitors have to carry her between floors, when the elevator is not working. Laila is not happy when others treat her differently.
Dhruv wants to be steady with Laila, but Laila says that she does not want an exclusive relationship with Dhruv just yet. Dhruv says that Laila will never be normal while being with other "normal" people.
Laila watches porn and masturbates like any other normal human being. Laila helps her college by winning a college band competition by composing brilliant lyrics. But her contributions are ignored when the judges announce that part of the reason Ramjas won was because their lyrics were written by a disabled person. Laila falls for Nima the lead singer of the college band. Laila is heartbroken when she is rejected.
She soon overcomes this phase, when she gets a scholarship for a semester at New York University and moves there with her mother Shubhangini (Revathy). New York is harsh but is also more accommodating for her special needs. Living in Manhattan, she meets an attractive young man named Jared (William Moseley) in her creative writing class, who is assigned to help her in typing. She also meets the fiery young activist Khanum (Sayani Gupta), a blind girl of a Pakistani Bangladeshi descent, whom she later falls in love with. Khanum and Laila go on a date.
Gradually, as Laila spends more time with Khanum, they have sex and eventually decide to move in together. Shubhangini allows this as she believes that Laila and Khanum are friends and that a bit of independence is good for Laila. Shubhangini returns to India. As Laila embarks on a journey of sexual discovery, she figures out she is bisexual, as she feels attracted to men like Jared in spite of being with Khanum. She has sex with Jared, and she doesn't tell Khanum. Laila's mother, believing the two are like best friends and oblivious to the fact that Khanum is her daughter's lover, invites her to Delhi to spend the winter break with the family. It is during that time that Laila finds the courage to tell her mother about her sexuality and her relationship with Khanum, which her mother initially disapproves. Laila also tells Khanum that she had sex with Jared and asks her to forgive her. Khanum thinks that she was being used by Laila and leaves her.
After a short while Laila's mother falls sick, and she learns that her mother had second stage colon cancer which has fallen into relapse after previous treatments. Later Laila and her mother patch up and come to terms with each other. After her mother dies Laila plays a recorded speech at her mother's funeral telling how much she loved her and how she was the only one who ever understood her.
The story ends with Laila going on a date, with herself, signifying that she now has taken control of her life and doesn't need anyone else to love and care for her.
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