This picture book describes how a young girl living in a northern Indian city longs for the Monsoon to arrive. She imagines everyone across India waiting anxiously, like her, for relief from the long hot dry season and for precious water for the crops. Her poetic monologue is set against double-page illustrations of domestic interiors and bustling contemporary city street scenes, crowded with colour and evocative detail - culminating in a picture of children dancing with joy as the rain finally falls.