Work is on in full swing at the Royal Peacock Garden to install a Wondrous Cage that will house forty talking hill mynas. Soon. The Cage and its lively, twittering occupants are entrusted to kale Khan's care. But he steals a myna for his little motherless daughter, who has long been asking him for one. what lies in store for Kale Khan ... and the beautiful historic city of Lucknow?