The Darjeeling Limited (2007)

Plotzle Original · Puzzle #14 · May 11, 2026 · Adventure / Drama

Six plot descriptions for The Darjeeling Limited (2007). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. A recovering alcoholic joins a guided trek through Bhutan to prove his sobriety to his ex-wife but the isolation and altitude trigger old compulsions he thought he had overcome.
2. A middle-aged woman abandons her corporate job in Singapore and hitchhikes through rural India with minimal planning as her adult children frantically try to contact her through sporadic emails.
3. An American nurse volunteers at a Calcutta clinic and befriends a local translator as they navigate bureaucratic obstacles and cultural misunderstandings while treating patients displaced by monsoon flooding.
4. Three American brothers who haven't spoken in a year embark on a train journey across India to bond and find themselves, but their spiritual quest derails due to pain killers, cough syrup, and pepper spray.
5. A Scottish cartographer travels to Darjeeling to map abandoned tea estates for a developer but becomes fascinated with the colonial ruins and delays returning home indefinitely.
6. Two estranged cousins inherit their grandfather's travel journal and retrace his 1960s backpacking route through Nepal while processing their shared grief over his sudden death and their fractured relationship.