Two veteran high school teachers, Anuja Rao Kashmira Irani and Neha Kewle Swarda Thigle, are assigned to collect population data for the census as they drive through a quiet, rain-soaked rural area. Their routine trip leads them to a derelict house that seems abandoned, yet a pregnant woman inside named Prerna Tina Bhatia greets them with wary hospitality. Prerna insists that four people live in the house: herself, her grandmother, an old man, and Bhola Boloram Das, the house cook. The conversation turns dark when Prerna points to her belly and explains, with a chill in her voice, that this will not be her first child; after birth, all newborns cry for a moment before they die in a way that seems almost routine to her. The two visitors exchange a skeptical glance and decide to leave, unsettled but not yet convinced that danger stalks them.
Yet something in the air of the place lingers, and one of the women senses a deeper peril. Both Anuja and Neha decide to return, driven by a sense that Prerna might be in real danger. When a raging rainstorm cuts off the outside world, they take shelter inside the house for the night. Quiet sounds lure them toward a shed at the edge of the property, where the old man is seen moving about in the shadows from the window. Meanwhile, Bhola overhears the women speaking on the phone about their precarious situation, and he is later seen conferring with the old man, whom he addresses as “bhayya,” a term that hints at some connection but leaves their exact bond ambiguous. The tension escalates as the women attempt to escape, only to realize they are being watched and manipulated from every corner of the house.
The next morning brings a ghastly discovery: a bloodied man is chained in the shed, a stark sign that the house is not the quiet refuge it appears to be. The women realize they have left their phones behind and there is no obvious way to call for help. They make a desperate bid to leave, but the grandmother’s quiet, calculating warning—“the old man is not letting you go”—confirms their worst fears. The old man’s control tightens as the two intruders are taken hostage and locked away in his basement, where they endure a brutal assault and a fight for survival. An escape through a narrow tunnel offers a slim chance, and the women separate to increase their odds of making it out alive.
The danger broadens as outsiders who hear a baby’s cries or a family disturbance arrive—one brother of the abducted women rushes to the scene but is attacked, and a man who comes to investigate the strange events at the house is killed. The nightmare deepens when Anuja and Neha are captured again, this time separated in different rooms controlled by Bhola and the old man. Bhola assaults Neha, driving her to a breaking point where she attempts to end her own life. The grim cycle of violence continues, but Anuja manages a daring escape, sets a hut alight, and witnesses the old man’s furious reaction. Bhola is ordered to kill Anuja, yet she turns the tables by stabbing Bhola and leaving him to the wolves in the forest.
Neha, meanwhile, finds a lifeline when Prerna reappears and helps her escape. In a shocking revelation, it becomes clear that the old man is Prerna’s father, a man who has forced Prerna into multiple pregnancies and exercised horrific control over her. He sexually abuses Prerna and manipulates her, shaping her into a vulnerable vessel for his brutal agenda. The women escape physically scarred, but the emotional wounds run deep as they uncover the truth of Prerna’s torment and her father’s cold calculations.
With heavy injuries but a renewed resolve, Anuja returns to the house to confront the horror and to end the cycle of violence. The trio—Anuja, Neha, and Prerna—work together to bring down the old man, and Neha delivers a final blow to the grandmother with a sickle, a brutal symbol of the family’s long-standing tyranny. They manage to flee the house once again, though Prerna watches the scene from the window, a silent witness to the violence that has defined her life.
The aftermath in the end credits paints a stark, harrowing picture of the years that followed in that house. Over two decades, Prerna endured eight pregnancies, seven of which were killed by her father, while one was stillborn. The film reveals that the old man and Bhola have killed more than thirteen people, and that Bhola has assaulted nine individuals. Their first victim, a painful entry point to the blood-soaked history, was Savitri, Prerna’s mother, highlighting a pattern of cruelty that has haunted the house for years.
In the end, the two women—now battered but unbroken—find a way to honor the truth of what happened, to break the cycle of fear, and to walk away with a hard-won sense of justice. The story remains a stark examination of coercion, abuse, and survival, told through the lens of ordinary people who stumble into something far darker than a deserted house, and who choose to fight back even when the odds are perilously stacked against them.
