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A young Anurag leads a comfortable life in Lucknow. During a get-together, he gets into a heated argument with his friends about public morality and accuses their bureaucrat fathers of large-scale corruption. Enraged, the friends hit back and accuse his father of embezzling funds in the Digboi Oil Refinery. The allegation shakes him from within. Upset, he embarks upon a journey to Digboi to discover the truth of his father’s mysterious disappearance and disproportionate wealth. His search leads him to Imphal, where he meets with Leima, a Meitei girl whose father and lone brother were killed in the crossfire between the insurgents and the security forces. They fall in love with each other under bizarre circumstances. With her help, he finds that his father died a few years ago. With his quest over, he plans to marry Leima and settle down in Imphal. But a week before the wedding, the insurgents kidnap him on the suspicion of being an army informer and take him to their camp inside the forest to hang him. Leima undertakes a long, arduous journey to rescue her lover.

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