Meet Chris Stark, six-feet-four, weighing a healthy 300 pounds. His family's corporation entered into a business collaboration with an Indian company following the opportunities created by liberalization, and this has brought the sportive young man to Delhi. While in India, he becomes enmeshed in industrial disputes, political machinations, weird intelligence webs and an unfortunate love affair, besides various other oddities. The solution to the entire Gordian knot of problems lies in making the Minister smile.