Peekay, a poor artist, was born into an untouchable family in a small village in eastern India. From childhood, he knew that an unusual fate awaited him; the voice of the oracle was forever engraved in his memory: “You are marrying a girl not from our village and not even from our country; she will be a musician, she will have her own jungle, she will be born under the sign of the Ox.” This is the amazing story of how a young Indian artist, armed with only a handful of brushes and faith in a prophecy, mounted a second-hand bicycle and crossed all of Asia and Europe to find the woman he loves.