Leela is a heartwarming story of two strangers whose paths in life cross and they walk together for a while.Watching the dying embers of her mother’s funeral pyre, Leela questions her life – setting in motion events that change her irrevocably. She travels to America as a visiting professor, leaving her ‘perfect’ life behind. She thrives in the American university environment – traveling the campus in cotton sarees, wearing her Indian identity on her sleeve.