Kolkata is in danger as Badami Hyena, an evil force, looms threat over the city. Dipak Chatterjee, the long-forgotten detective created by pulp-fiction writer Samarendranath Pandey, better known by his pen name Shri Swapankumar, comes out of his web of hurt pride to save the City of Joy. But Shri Swapankumar soon charts a crazy narrative that complicates Dipak's fate! Can the madcap detective save his city and himself?

After decades of working in the printing industry in Kolkata in eastern India, Tarini has reached retirement age. He spends his days at home, having declined his son’s invitation to come to the United States. Then a friend shows him a help-wanted ad. Although he has never published a book, Tarini used to tell made-up stories to his friends in his youth, and the ad for a storyteller in Ahmedabad in western India piques his interest.