Only three members (Parag, Nandini and their son Bal) remain of this once populous Deshpande family. The fourth (Abhay, their cousin) arrives visiting from distant cold shores of Sweden. It`s almost a decade since we last met them in the second part `The Pond' of the trilogy in their village Dharangaon in Maharashtra.
Apocalypse has arrived. The whole landscape is steeped in dust and a grueling sun beats it down. Torn walls, broken down houses, vultures, animal carcasses and water in meager quantities. A few members of the Deshpande family have died, a few have migrated, the once formidable stone mansion is now an old decaying shadow of itself, much like the larger village in which it is situated. Against this backdrop, the cousins reunite with Nandini (Parag, the older cousin`s wife) as the stoic witness and their Uncle Chandu, a lost tattered soul, who has reluctantly returned home after years of aimless wandering and spiritual seeking. The ensuing conversation is a meditation on the momentariness of life and the bonds that inextricably tie us to our community and the perennial question about the world we leave behind for our children.