Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda, twentysomething Mina finds herself helping to run a motel in the faraway land of Mississippi. It's there that a passionate romance with the charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius challenges the prejudices of their conservative families and exposes the rifts between the region's Indian and African American communities.

• DirectorMira Nair
• Release18 September 1991
• Genre
  Drama / Romance
• Duration1h 58m
• Budget$8,000,000
• Revenue$7,310,000
• Rate
  

  6.378
  90 reviews
• Productions

  Cinecom Pictures, Mirabai Films, Film Four International