Shem (Adil Hussain), an out-of-work self-styled detective with a sharp sense of the streets, escapes the lethargy of small-town Shillong when he is asked to investigate the disappearance of an object of great cultural value. Navigating narrow streets and dark alleys, he embarks on an emotional and mental journey reflective of his reality and that of Shillong. Shem navigates the city of Shillong in far-flung North East India--an area rife with acute race tensions and an even more diverse cultural identity as compared to the rest of the country. Like the quintessential flaneur, he manoeuvres the real and the imaginable to further complicate the personal, the political, and the emotional.