Mr. Kapasi is a tour guide in India who takes tourists to the Sun Temple at Konarak. Today, he's giving a tour to a second-generation Indian-American family—Mr. and Mrs. Das and their three children. On the drive, Mr. Das asks Mr. Kapasi about himself and they learn he is an interpreter for a doctor for Gujarati patients. Mrs. Das says she thinks his job as a doctor's interpreter is romantic and a lot of responsibility. Mr. Kapasi, previously uninterested in Mrs. Das, starts to have romantic fantasies about her. He is unhappy in his marriage and she seems unhappy in hers. When they stop for food, she invites him to eat with the family. Mr. Das takes a picture of the two of them, and she asks for his address to mail him a copy. He imagines they'll write long letters back and forth and fall in love. On the way back from the temple, wanting to spend more time with Mrs. Das, he suggests taking the family to visit the hills at Udayagiri and Khandagiri. They go. Mrs. Das says her feet are tired and she wants to wait in the car. Mr. Kapasi is excited about this. As the family leaves, he tells them the monkeys are only dangerous if given food. With the rest of her family gone, Mrs. Das tells Mr. Kapasi her life story. One of her two sons is not Mr. Das's, but rather the son of a friend of Mr. Das's who came to visit them once. She has never told anyone, not Mr. Das and not the boy's father. She feels an immense sense of pain from this hidden secret, which she wants Mr. Kapasi to say something to heal, as a doctor's interpreter. Mr. Kapasi is caught off guard. He asks her if she really feels pain, or guilt. Mrs. Das, upset, leaves the car, trailing a snack she bought earlier. The monkeys start to follow her. Mr. Kapasi runs after her to warn her. They reach the family and one of the children is missing. They hear his screams and find him being attacked by the monkeys who followed the food. Mr. Kapasi shoos the monkeys away and the family embraces. Mrs. Das pulls a hairbrush from her bag to brush the hair of the son who was attacked and the slip of paper with Mr. Kapasi's address flutters away on the wind. He thinks that he will commit this image of the family to memory.