Manu, a struggling actor, gets his breakthrough when director Ravi Tharakan casts him in a horror film and isolates him in a secluded house to prepare. Haunted by rumors of a murder linked to a forbidden cupboard, Manu’s mind begins to blur fiction and reality. As paranoia consumes him, he breaks down crying for his mother, leaving it unclear whether the horror was supernatural, psychological, or manipulated in the name of art.