Sanya Rawat-Chaddha, a psychoanalyst with the Bangalore city crime department, gets a phone call that turns her life on its head. Seven hundred kilometers away, a garish woman has been murdered in Basavakalyan. The investigating officer, Chandrakant Kademani, informs Sanya that her name has been found inscribed on the dead woman’s torso in a strange, ancient dialect. Learning that Sanya herself had committed the homicide of a crazed Englishwoman four years earlier, Chandrakant concludes that the two incidents are somehow connected.

As the duo team up to investigate the strange phenomenon, similar killings occur in nearby towns in a paradoxically random yet decipherable pattern. All victims belong to a specific community and are found dead with inscriptions in the ancient dialect cauterized on their torsos. Sanya and Chandrakant realize that the inscriptions on the victims’ bodies are related to an ancient curse and contain ominous clues to what lies...