Prabhakar Mathapati

Suman, a newly-wedded wife in Maharashtra's Gondhal rituals, conspires with Gondhali Saheba to kill her husband, Anand. They plan to carry out an escape that jeopardises her soul amid drum-driven ritual and divine omens, blurring the distinction between salvation and damnation in a citywide verdict of fire, blood, and awe.

As a forced disciple of a Jogta–an outward female form possessing a male-body person, it took Valli a decade to learn that his true masculine self has been trapped in the garb of his highly marginalised and exploited Jogta custom. During this, Vali suffered several physical assaults, social mockery, and public persecution. He escapes.