A pair of teen friends – known as "Chicken & Curry" because they are virtually inseparable – fail their high school finals and try to cover it by claiming that Curry is in the midst of an identity crisis that can only be solved by a visit to his ancestral homeland, India. While the ruse works wonderfully on their parents, this impromptu journey of self-discovery takes an unexpected detour when Curry locates his biological sister and remains captivated by the country he first despised, and Chicken falls for an older doctor working for Médecins Sans Frontières.

Due diciottenni bocciati all'esame di maturità, Pollo e Curry, ebreo l'uno e indiano adottato da una famiglia italiana l'altro, partono per l'India, dove conoscono Chiara, una ginecologa che lavora per un'associazione onlus internazionale.