The film introduces a middle-class household centred on a housewife Shiuli (Swastika Mukherjee) whose life runs on routine, cooking, caregiving, and managing domestic expectations. Her husband and children take her presence for granted, establishing the emotional imbalance early. Two floors down from her lives Jhuma (Paoli Dam), another woman caught in an unhappy marriage who is slowly becoming an alcoholic. How their destinies intersect and they slowly learn to trust each other and change their circumstances forms the crux of the story.There's something quietly disarming about Bibi Payra.