The police hunt a femme fatale who, after intercourse, brutally murders her lovers and leaves behind a swastika calling card.

Rushi, a young Brahmin man, has a hostile relationship with his father. When Rushi's friend takes him to a past-life regression expert, discoveries about his past answer many of his doubts.

The tragic story of a poor man whose son is suffering from some unknown disease.

The story, set in 1971 at the time of the war between India and Pakistan, is based on the novel of the same name by Rohinton Mistry, an Indian now living in Toronto. "Such a Long Journey" takes place mostly in and around a large apartment complex, its courtyard and the street, which the municipal authorities want to widen so that even more choking diesel fumes can cloud the air. We meet the hero, Gustad (Roshan Seth), in the process of defending the old concrete wall that protects his courtyard from the street, and later he strikes a bargain with an itinerant artist (Ranjit Chowdhry), who covers the wall with paintings from every conceivable religious tradition, with the thought that all of the groups represented will join in defending the wall.