bengali detective kiriti roy goes to puri with his wife krishna for their honeymoon. kiriti stumbles on a series of mysterious incidents in the city. police discover the dead body of a waiter, sona ali, working in a nearby hotel. a guest in the same hotel, kali sarkar, goes missing mysteriously and his room is ransacked during the night. since kiriti knows kali from his childhood; he gets involved and starts an investigation into the murder and disappearances. he meets the hotel owner harit sanyal, his wife runa sanyal, and a mysterious young male adult masquerading as a woman. what ensues is a web of deceit, lies, and greed that culminates in a cathartic and surprising climax.