An LGBTQ entrepreneur struggles to keep her family bakery and wine bar afloat in a conservative New England town while at the same time her relationship crumbles. Determined to carry on, she adds Marijuana to her offerings, including Bhang Lassi, a love potion known as the “erection-connection!”

SYNOPSIS:

Parvati, a dark, smoldering Indian goddess is a lesbian entrepreneur, who celebrates being different while running her father’s business, The Blushing Cupcake (bakery in the morning)/In Vino Veritas (a wine bar in the evening) in a small New England town. Her partner, Sati – voluptuous, with a booty shaped like a yoga pants model – works for her, and also lives with her, and Parvati’s infatuation with Sati knows no bounds. Together, they smoke Marijuana like many people chew gum: all day, and every day. And they consider it a sacrament and aphrodisiac from Lord Shiva (Om Namah Shivaya), the universe’s very first hippie god. Their lives are an intoxicating mix of work and play, and Sati’s peach pie is considered by most people to be better than sex.

The business, already on shaky ground financially, becomes even more tenuous as a highly vocal, and ever increasing band of protestors picket the diner, at issue with the free-wheeling, LGBTQ-friendly vibe that the business promotes and attracts. To make matters worse, not only is Parvati about to go broke and lose her business, she also loses Sati, her lover and best friend, as Sati moves out after accidentally getting pregnant with her “fuc-boi,” the town’s UPS driver, Miles.

Parvati bans Sati from the restaurant’s kitchen, but nine months later, after Baby Vishnu is born, Sati slowly works her way back into the business, and as the godmother of the baby, Parvati still cannot resist Sati’s charms, even though she can’t forgive her.

As the business goes into a death spiral, Sati suggests that they add cannabis to their offerings. In Vino Veritas (In wine truth) adds weed, as well as a new moniker: In Mary Jane Bellezza (In Marijuana beauty). The two women blaze ahead with “therapy for the body, and nectar for the soul.”

The newly minted cannabis entrepreneurs pull in garbage bag full loads of cash, but it also pushes the leader of the protestors, Maeve Wilson, over the edge. Maeve and her group force a town vote as to whether or not Parvati’s Marijuana license is indeed legal. A vote is scheduled for April 21, 90 days to the day after the initial town hall meeting to voice concern.

Parvati and Sati decide to attempt to “legally rig the vote.” They plan a festival for April 20 (4:20 Festival), on the day before the town vote with all proceeds going to the town’s first responders, police, firefighters and teachers (“They go low, we go HIGH,” to quote Michelle Obama).

The plan works, but Maeve Wilson refuses to accept the results of the vote (“fake news”). And in a fit of rage, she surrounds the restaurant with her band of protestors, shouting hateful abuses, and Sati takes the bait: she punches Maeve in the face – badly injuring her – and of course, criminal and civil charges are filed by Maeve as the incident is captured on cell phone video.

As Sati heads to prison, Parvati heads toward her kitchen with Rihanna, her budtender in the new cannabis business. Parvati is tired of being alone, and Rihanna has just the cure: Bhang Lassi, a powerful “weed milkshake” aphrodisiac known as the “erection connection!” Lady boners ensue:

My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard, And they’re like, It’s better than yours, Damn right its better than yours ….

The Bhang Lassi love potion also wastes Parvati so bad that she loses touch with reality. Ignoring the mounting legal pressures surrounding her business, Parvati instead uses her magical concoction to sleep with every man, woman – and everything in between in town – parading her conquests in front of Sati’s home like revenge porn as Sati watches in despair, having just recently been released from prison.

Eventually, Parvati loses her business and loses touch with reality, descending into the oblivion of a dark-stoned haze. Out of nowhere, Sati shows up, driving a “Blushing Cupcake/In Vino Veritas/In Mary Jane Bellezza” food truck. The two women will not be defeated, and Parvati realizes that although she will never be able to change Sati, she will always love her.

Their new life together, unfortunately, is doomed. Sati is dying, having been diagnosed with untreatable cancer while in prison, and Maeve, still undeterred in a neck brace and wheelchair, decides to now protest the newly created food truck operation.

As Sati lays dying, Parvati decides to kill her enemy by running her over with the food truck as Maeve sits in her wheelchair frozen stiff like a deer in the headlights. Somehow, the universe intercedes, and Miles, a passenger in the truck, manages to slam on the brakes and the truck stops just inches before running over Maeve deader than hell.

In the end, just a Parvati is never able to change Sati, she also realizes that she can’t change Maeve, her mortal enemy. Instead, she takes the high road, attempting to find common ground. She agrees to disagree and finally actually meets Maeve, and gets to know her as a person – someone with views completely different than her own – but also with the right to express those opinions.

Ashes to ashes, and dust to dust. Bhang Lassi intimately embraces Marijuana like a lover that we can never really possess – along with the differences that divide us, and also unite us in these volatile times. If you love without fear, bliss is obtainable, and life is best lived sexy and stoned, in the here and now.

There will be an answer Let it be. - Paul McCartney

And no religion too

Imagine all the people living life in peace. - John Lennon