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Arjun Malhotra, a solitary psychologist in Pune, rescues an injured pigeon named Pari while nursing his own unspoken wounds from a childhood scarred by domestic abuse. His quiet life unravels when client Maya Verma seeks help escaping her controlling husband, Varun. Drawn by shared pain, Arjun blurs professional boundaries, sheltering Maya and envisioning a gentle future together-until she vanishes, leaving a note and, days later, news of Varun's fatal car crash.
Haunted by suspicion, Arjun uncovers Maya's calculated deception: she and an old lover orchestrated Varun's death for inheritance, using Arjun as an unwitting alibi and emotional decoy. Betrayal ignites not violence but a chilling psychological counterstroke. Posing as a new therapist, he re-enters her life, sowing doubt, gaslighting her reality until her mind fractures.
Maya confesses to police in a breakdown, evidence dissolved; she's institutionalized. Arjun, hollowed by revenge, releases a healed Pari to the sky and retreats inward, emerging to teach the fragile line between empathy and entrapment. In the end, an empty cage and a journal entry remain: love twisted into a cage is merely loneliness begging for recognition.