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For years, Zeba has been a loving wife and patient mother, humble in the face of life's challenges. Her quiet and seemingly peaceful life is shattered, however, when her husband Kamal is killed and she is found standing over his corpse with bloodied hands. Her children are ready to swear that their mother would never commit such an act, but Kamal's relatives crave revenge. Narrowly escaping a violent death at the hands of the unruly mob, Zeba is arrested.

As she awaits the only possible sentence - death - she finds herself among a group of women who have had the misfortune of simply being women in a country where tradition is everything. They don't know if Zeba is truly a cold-blooded killer, or if she too has simply broken one of the myriad rules in this cruel and male-dominated world. Or is Zeba a sorceress who wields the jadu, the mythical power to make impossible things happen? Her mother was just like that, and perhaps her powers have been passed on to her...

Only magic can save Zeba from a death sentence. And much more than magic is needed to humble the sorrows in the souls of these previously condemned women. But there is hope. Even there, in the windowless house...