On vacation from boarding college, younger Ishvaku is fascinated by the bedtime story his mom pertains to him—that of the warrior Ashwatthama, from the Mahabharata, whose blind vengeance provokes a curse from Lord Krishna, forcing him to wander the earth in everlasting struggling. However the story is interrupted by a bandit raid during which Ishvaku’s mom is killed, and Ishvaku is packed off to his ancestral village within the Chambal Valley ravines of Central India. There he discovers a household in disaster, whose rituals, traditions and orthodox feudal values have gotten redundant. In the meantime, Ishvaku’s personal life take an odd flip, as a visiting sacred bull predicts that each knowledge and tragedy will quickly come to him. In anticipation of such tragedy, Ishvaku makes an attempt to flee into the magical realm of Ashwatthama
