The story revolves around a a boy with special abilities who is discovered by a magician who intends to take him to Chennai for a show but the boy disappears.

Feluda, Topshe, and Lalmohan Ganguly go to Puri for vacation. One evening, the trio spot odd footprints on the sand. Later, Lalmohan Babu goes to meet an astrologer who is presumably gifted with extrasensory perception. Soon they stumble upon a dead body lying on the beach. Can they figure out the mystery?