The movie is about a poet and singer Lalon Fakir who belongs to a cult called baul and who believes and inculcates that the value of a human being is above the narrow belief of religions.
As communal tensions flare across distinct eras, a Hindu couple, Subodh and Swapna, repeatedly seek refuge in a rented house, only to meet the exact same tragic fate at the bottom of a courtyard well.
Against the bleak backdrop of a devastating famine, a skeptical young city slicker named Surendra returns to his rural village with a bizarre business proposition: he will pay a handsome reward to anyone who can capture a living ghost. Driven by absolute desperation, the impoverished locals launch into a series of frantic, orchestrated supernatural hoaxes to claim the prize money.
