Layla is an American Muslim who is a child of divorced parents, is struggling between her identities as a Muslim daughter and an American citizen. When 19, she forces herself to get settled in a simple home and agrees for marriage to an Indian engineer in Hyderabad, who has his own secrets. Days before her wedding, she is bleeding from a miscarriage, a fact she hides from her family. She is even taken to Muslim holy men to get cured by magic spells. After her marriage, as Layla adjusts to her new home, she is tested often by numerous situations and with identity crises. Set amidst the background of Hindu-Muslim tensions, Madras on Rainy Days maps out the small complexities of human relationships and its hopes and disappointments.
