On Christmas Eve, a vibrant party lights up the night as David enjoys a drink and slides behind the wheel of his jeep, heading along the winding roads of Ooty. He speaks with a calm yet pointed voice about crime and justice, and in a blink he takes his eyes off the road to adjust a rearview mirror. The momentary distraction leads to a crash with a bike in front of him, and the two riders, Shaan and Vinu, are knocked off-balance. The bike won’t start, so they slip into the jeep for a ride, abruptly changing the quiet of the night. They drive to a hospital, and after a tense pause outside, a nurse informs them that Vinu has vanished. [Shaan] bursts into a rage, calling out Vinu’s name in a thunderous, chaotic outburst, his anger spilling onto David as well. The trio begins a frantic search, circulating a photo and querying locals, hoping to make sense of the inexplicable disappearance.**
When the jeep rolls on, a revelation arrives that changes everything. David admits he is an IPS officer, a truth that shocks Shaan and redefines the uneasy dynamic they’ve built in the moment. He gets off at his own house, leaving Shaan puzzled and the mystery unresolved. We later glimpse David returning to the pub where the evening began, stepping into his jeep again, and discovering a wallet that bears Vinu’s driver’s license. A flicker of intent passes over him as he pulls away, the weight of what he’s found pressing in the background.
The next act darkens the mood: Vinu, already under pressure, writes a suicide note and climbs to a waterfall, ending his life in a tragic plunge. David, driven by what he found, tracks Vinu’s address to gather more answers. The crowd at the residence confirms the suicide, and David travels back to Shaan’s place to relay his doubt about the previous night’s story, showing the house in shambles and Shaan shattered by the news. The film here paints a picture of fractured friendships and a circle of men who are all tangled with a debt of 1.75 crores tied to stolen money, a mystery that will force them into hiding and testing loyalties. Shaan explains that the group has fallen under the shadow of this missing fortune.
A flashback opens a window into the prelude of the catastrophe. The four friends—Vinu, Cyril, Eby, and Jessy—are depicted planning a surprise birthday for Shaan, with each looking like they carry a part of a fragile history. Vinu’s affection for Jessy becomes a driving undercurrent as Cyril, Eby, and the others share drinks at Vinu’s internet cafe. The night takes a darker turn when the police raid the cafe, and the mood shifts to one of tension and secrets. Later that night, intruders strike at Vinu’s home during a blackout, leaving him bound and manhandled by a gangster named Charlie who accuses him of losing a large sum of money to his boss, Christy. The fear and confusion spiral as the friends scramble to understand where the money went and who is watching them.
Cyril’s confession injects a new twist into the mystery. He admits that he found the 1.75 crores under a computer table in the cafe, and later hid the cash in his father’s tea factory. When they return to the factory the next morning, the bag is mysteriously empty, and heat rises as blame shifts toward Cyril. The group decides to relocate their families for safety and huddle in a lodge. Vinu and Shaan, separated from the others, press on in their van, only to be rear-ended by a speeding vehicle—Charlie’s gang close behind. A brutal chase ensues, floors are smashed, and Vinu escapes while Shaan, cornered, leaps from a bridge into a stream, both narrowly surviving the assault.
David’s pursuit of truth intensifies. His investigations lead him to an orphanage, where he learns that Eby and Jessy had planned to marry and had left on Christmas Eve. A new thread appears as he examines Vinu’s license and tracks down a hospital number, only to find no easy answers in the lab. His search stretches further to an illegal lab nearby, where he uncovers that Vinu had submitted multiple blood samples, a clue that steers him toward the mortuary and a thread of counterfeit currency. He shares his findings with the senior police officer, Victor in the course of their discussion, and discovers that Vinu had visited a mortuary and might have taken a body. The next day, a mortuary employee confirms that a body was removed and later brought back, a detail that deepens the mystery.
The investigation widens, threading through the police and the suspects. The next day, a confrontation occurs when the officer and David question those who were with Vinu on Christmas night. Shaan reveals he had gone to a lodge and that a chance encounter with Vinu later escalated into a violent incident, ending with Vinu escaping again. The plot thickens as counterfeiting becomes a critical clue: Cyril’s name surfaces in connection with a counterfeit bill used to buy a bus ticket, pulling Cyril back into the investigation with the others and bringing Eby back into the frame.
A revelatory flashback returns to the waterfall. After an encounter with Charlie, a wounded Vinu takes refuge at the lodge, and Cyril and Eby back his plan for disappearance. Eby urges Vinu to vanish, and the group contemplates faking a death by using a body from the mortuary. They hunt for an old van to move the body and even bribe a mortuary worker to facilitate the plot. The plan unfolds as Vinu slips away, joins Shaan on a bike, and heads toward the waterfall. While Vinu appears to die in the imagined deception, Jessy and Cyril reappear at the van, and a tense truth serum of sorts floods the narrative.
The truth comes to light and danger escalates. David exposes that the currency is counterfeit and reveals Eby’s true role as a carrier for Christy, a revelation that redirects blame and forces the group to abandon the physical loot. The men decide to leave the money behind and file an FIR about unclaimed baggage, hoping to end the conspiracy. Yet the danger is far from over, as Shaan’s sudden shout—demanding to know exactly who David is and whether he truly is the IPS officer he claimed to be—pulls the story toward its final, dramatic turn.
In the climactic final image, the truth is laid bare. The money count resumes, and a chilling postscript reveals the mastermind behind the ruse: the “fake IPS officer” is indeed a front for a criminal web, and the frame closes on a cigar smoking in the hands of Christy’s true puppeteer. The ultimate reveal presents a shock: Christopher Moriarty’s Christy sits behind the scheme, while the others are left to confront the consequences of lies, loyalty, and an intricate web of crime that spirals from a Christmas Night that began with a simple car ride and ended in revelation.
