A young english teacher with a troubled past arrives in the ancient city of Varanasi to spend a few weeks with her aunt who works at an old missionary. it follows the recent suicide of her own mother and a letter she left with a pendant to bring back to her sister. When she arrives she soon learns about a serial killer who's kidnapping and killing local girls in and around the city and her own future is tied to the desperate acts of the killer. The CBI send in a quite analyst from DELHI to head up the case and to find the killer before another victim is killed.