Six months later. Anjali quits her startup. She starts “The Half-Curry Kitchen” — a YouTube channel where she teaches second-gen Indians how to cook one “forgotten” family dish per week. Not for virality. For repair.

Anjali is stunned. Her mother and grandmother haven’t spoken since Anjali was 12. No one ever explained why. She calls her mother.

But that night, she dreams of her grandmother’s kitchen — the smell of jeera crackling in ghee, her little hands rolling pooris that puffed up like golden moons. She wakes up crying and doesn’t know why.