A bright, motivated 21-year-old named Sanyukta begins her PhD journey in the lab of a stolid, unremarkable Professor. She embodies the typical stereotypes... Scientists represent excellence in an academic, intellectual sense, and research labs represent the pinnacle of research ethics. But she'll find a new world waiting for her. Sanyukta discovers herself entangled in a web of inconsistencies. A PhD student who achieves recognition without doing so because the professor is his lunch buddy, gifted authorships, sabotaged experiments, and a PhD "guide" who decides not to show the way! Will Sanyukta be able to resolve these contradictions and navigate this complex world?