A labourer visits his ancestral village in the Himalayan foothills to take his aged father with him to the city. But his father's refusal to leave the village makes the labourer prolong his stay in the village which becomes gripped by the terror and drama of a lurking man-eater.

Celebrated filmmaker Deepa Mehta investigates one of India’s most notorious crimes — the 2012 gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman on a Delhi bus — in her angry, impassioned and essential new film.