Life can simultaneously not make sense and be explained through the most trivial of objects, like Kohl. Devaki, an undergraduate doctor, is on a medical camp from her college to her own village, Nawahati. A place previously famous for its lead deposits. This is where she meets a student from the Nawahati college of mining engineering. Partho was sure that his crush on Devaki could be defined by her choice of eyeliners. However Devaki prefered to call the cosmetic kajol, which her family has crafted by hand for generations. Devaki comes in a possession of a letter that holds link to a terrible tragedy committed in the past in her village. Together she and Partho come to know that the wrong is about to be committed again. While Partho searches for a logical answer to it all. Devaki tries to make him fall more deeply in love with her, which she believes will be the emancipation of Nawahati.