The only thing good in 14-year-old Vyom's life is his quiz partner and potential life partner, Tara Venkat. But the universe seems to have different plans. Tara Venkat mysteriously disappears.

Amid a local election with two rivals vying to win by any means necessary, a barber lands in a curiously powerful position as the single deciding vote.

In southern India, a laborer's dreams of owning a piece of land to farm is complicated by political corruption.