An alcoholic with a violent past—living peacefully with his daughter beside a waterfall—decides to take Ayyappa Deeksha (a 41-day spiritual vow and period of intense austerity) at her request.

A folk artist's murder in Telangana village sparks a series of mysterious deaths. As villagers hear anklet bells and lapwing cries before each death, they blame a goddess's wrath. But a darker truth lurks behind these supernatural events.