70-year-old Sashidhar Lele (Dilip Prabhavalkar) has convinced his 65-year-old wife Ranjana (Rohini Hattandady) that it is time for them to go. Not on a trip or on an adventure but go for good. In other words, it is time for them to die.
The film, which is directed by Indian writer, director and actor Anant Mahadevan, is set in the bustling city of Mumbai and begins in the year of 2018. Sashidhar is writing a letter to the President of India trying yet again to convince him to pass a sentence of death on the couple, whose ‘crime’ is that they are past their sixty-fifth year and are just a burden to society. He is angry that they are not getting the official permission to die, and expresses his desires to whomever he passes, whether they want to listen or not.
“If you want a happy ending, you need to know where to end the story,” he says to his nephew. “Life hurts a lot more than death,” he says to another person and “a good death is as important as a good life,” he reflects to someone else. As no one seems to really listen, he suggests in an interview with a newspaper that he could strangulate his wife and then get the death sentence and in this way, they could fulfill their wedding vows “till death do us together.”
In one scene the couple meets with ‘the right to die with dignity society’ and are disappointed to find that going to Switzerland, where they endorse active euthanasia, would be far too expensive for them.
When asked why Ranjana has agreed to her husband’s death wishes, she responds, “it wasn’t a mere death wish. Rather to celebrate life, through death of choice.” She does not want to be left behind if her husband, with whom she has been in an arranged marriage since youth, should pass before her. They want to be able to leave this world together and say one final goodbye as an end to their romantic union. Then Covid hits and the world is a different place altogether.