15 Park Avenue

Meethi shows early signs of schizophrenia during childhood, though the family maintains a relatively normal life. These fleeting symptoms hint at a fragile mental landscape that will shape her future. The quiet rhythms of Kolkata mask the inner turmoil she carries.

A traumatic incident during Meethi's work as a journalist becomes a turning point, triggering withdrawal from the world outside. The event leads to the dissolution of her engagement with Joydeep Roy, and Meethi drifts deeper into her inner world. The shift marks the end of a normal life and the start of a fragile balance between reality and imagination.

Meethi constructs an elaborate alternate life in which she is married to her ex-fiancé and has five children at a non-existent address called 15 Park Avenue. This imagined family sits beside her ordinary routines, offering refuge from a world she cannot trust. The setting of this fantasy exists in her mind, though its pull feels intensely real.

Anu, a devoted professor, puts her own romantic life and career on hold to care for Meethi and their aging mother. The daily caregiving becomes the backbone of the family, a tireless vigil that keeps Meethi tethered to home. The burden also reveals the personal cost of love expressed as protection.

Dr. Kunal Barua enters as Meethi's new doctor after a severe seizure, beginning to piece together the arc of her illness. He listens to Anu's explanations and starts mapping how trauma intersects with her fragile mind. His involvement marks a move from mere management to a deeper search for understanding.

Through conversations with Anu, the doctor helps reveal how Meethi's trauma feeds her alternate world. The imagined family functions as a fortress against reality, blurring memory with longing and fear. This insight reframes care as both compassionate and potentially confining.

On the doctor's suggestion, Anu takes Meethi and their mother on a vacation to Bhutan in the hope of reopening doors to the outside world. The trip tests whether a change of scenery can re-anchor Meethi's perception or push her further into reverie. The setting shifts from Kolkata to the mountains, where unfamiliar rhythms challenge her routine.

During the journey, Joydeep Roy reappears, now a husband with two children, though Meethi no longer recognizes him as her former fiancé. They share a warm, enigmatic bond that reminds her of a past she cannot fully place. Joydeep offers to help locate the elusive family home, 15 Park Avenue.

Joydeep drives Meethi through familiar parts of Kolkata, guiding her toward the district where she believes her house and family reside. The search blurs memory and reality as the city’s landmarks become part of her dreamscape. The road back to the imagined home becomes a conduit between care, memory, and longing.

Meethi steps into the house she longed for and is met by the presence of her 'real' family, including the husband she has always pictured. The boundary between memory and reality collapses in a dreamlike sequence that is at once comforting and unsettling. She walks inside and is never seen again.

Anu and the family carry on with care and memory after Meethi's disappearance, struggling with the line between what is real and what is protective fantasy. The story ends on a quiet, unsettling note about love, duty, and the costs of keeping someone safe. Meethi is seen no more, leaving questions in her wake.

Across the film, caregiving remains the thread that binds memory, hope, and fear. The narrative shows how love can shield one from harsh reality while risking isolation from the world outside. The closing moments underscore the delicate balance between protection and confinement in the face of a fragile mind.