Summary

Shalini Malla, founder of an investigative journalism magazine called Fast Forward meets with a Nepali government minister who is seeking the retraction of an article. The article was pertaining to a man who had been imprisoned and executed by the government. The minister insists the man was killed by terrorists, but Shalini refuses to issue a retraction. Afterwards, Shalini meets with her two old college friends, Alina and Priya, at a bar. Shalini worries because Alina has been drinking excessively since her husband left her.

The next day, Shalini is informed that Fast Forward will be facing a tax audit. She tells her staff, including a journalist named Chitra who wrote the article that offended the government, not to come in the next day. If no one is present in the office, she believes there will be no audit. After work, Shalini is...