When Meera, a migrant in Mumbai, joins a lonely-death cleaning company, she starts seeing visions of a burning body, forcing her to face her past.

Shubham Negi

Shubham Negi is a Poet, Writer and Director. He is a Netflix TakeTen winner. His feature projects include Soma Helang (NFDC Co-Production Market 2024, Writer’s Ink Lab) and Things We Leave Behind (QueerFrames Screenwriting Lab). In 2024, he was part of Netflix’s Fund for Creative Equity cohort at the Busan International Film Festival.

Synopsis

Meera, a 30-year-old Himachali migrant in Mumbai, works as a henna artist and shares an apartment with her friend, Suman. When Suman’s boyfriend moves in, Meera is forced to live alone and take up an unusual job at AfterDeath CleanUp, a company that cleans homes of those who died alone. While working, she begins experiencing unsettling visions of fire, cries, and a burning body that seems to call out to her. Amid strained ties with Suman, Meera forms a tender, romantic connection with Reshma, a beauty parlor owner, but her haunting visions persist. When a fire breaks out at an apartment Meera was cleaning, the lines between her reality and buried past blur, pulling her back to a traumatic night in her village.

Contact

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