An American teacher, a Hindu swami, and an antiquities smuggling ring fight it out over a black stone goddess in the holy city of Rishikesh.
An angry black goddess kicks off a heel in her rage and sends it flying to the opposite side of India, setting off—two centuries later—a three-way scramble ending in the holy city of Rishikesh. Annie, a retired schoolteacher, has the heel, which she must bring from America to a young renunciant in trouble. Nic and Seema, high-end antiquities smugglers, are after the goddess’s whole body, a work of art sure to bring a high price in the antiquities market—if they can find her. And an ambitious swami claims that the black goddess incarnates in a succession of beautiful young women who are unwilling players in his sex cult for the rich and famous.