When Amala stumbles onto a decrepit house hidden in the forests of India, she unwittingly sets off events that will reveal the secrets of her father's traumatic history and put her own future in jeopardy.

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The film opens with YOUNGER (30’s) and ELDER (40’s), two british brothers living in India in the 1970s, participating in a bizarre self prescribed right of passage in which Younger must navigate through a wall of dead cockroaches, a tunnel of sticks and finally retrieve a picture of their dead mother from the bottom of a muddy old well. Younger is timid in nature and Elder uses this against his brother to dominate him in every interaction.

Inside, the two britishers argue before Elder decides to go pick up groceries and the life insurance payment which is their only source of income. We learn that the brother’s precarious existence is based on a strange set of rules derived in part from their perception of their heritage and in part from the style/untimely death of their parents. The boys watch Elder go and Vivek dares Suresh to approach the house. Suresh does and he meets Younger. Both boy and man are quite shocked but when Vivek joins them they start to hit it off. Younger takes the two on a tour which creeps the boys out (he shows them the place his father died) but then they listen to some music and find they have similar tastes. The boys offer Younger a cigarette and he comically tries and fails to smoke it. He enjoys hanging out with the teens and they get a kick out of seeing him “smoke” and listening to the radio together. Eventually Suresh and Vivek are shuffled out by Younger when he gets scared Elder will find them at the house. After the teens leave he sits down to draw. He’s a very talented artist and he draws his new friends. Outside, Vivek convinces Suresh to bring Amala (his crush) back to the house for a date.

That evening the two british brothers take a bath but they’re interrupted by the kids outside in the forest. Younger wants them to stay but Elder scares them away, by throwing stones. One hits Amala. When the boy and girl are gone Elder puts two and two together and realizes that Younger has broken the most sacred rule of all, no smoking with friends. (Their father died by accidentally burning to death after smoking opium with Indian friends) Elder is infuriated and chases Younger inside. They battle and in the process Younger hits Elder with a piece of wood that has a rusty nail protruding from one end and Elder shoots Younger in the side with a shotgun. Both injuries aren’t very serious but they’re so stunned by their own violence that they make up and treat each other’s wounds. The energy and hyper violence they showed seems to flick a switch in the brother’s psyche and they see each other clearly for the first time in a long time.

The next day Younger and Elder go to the forest and play a childish game of make believe. It enhances the bonding they experienced the night before but when they return, Elder becomes ill. He has lockjaw. He tries to hide his condition from his brother because Younger is busy drawing incredible murals on the interior walls of the house, but eventually he can’t and Younger is forced to take care of this brother who quickly becomes wracked with spasms. The three Indian teens (and more FRIENDS) come back to the house right when Elder is at his worst and Younger can’t help but chase them away. He wants their friendship but he can’t apologize to them and take care of this brother at the same time. He fires a shot over their heads and they run away in a panic.

The film finishes with the three Indian teens re-exploring the house days later. They see all the strange and wonderful murals on the walls and the remnants of the two bizarre brothers but they don’t know what to think.