Synopsis Radha Madhavan is on his way back to India with his mother's body. The mother has died while they were visiting their dear ones. Suddenly he finds the flight landing in an alien place and discovers that all the air traffic is stalled due to a terrorist attack. No one knows when they will be able to resume their journey. He refuses to leave his mother and is helped by a half Indian-half Russian lady anthropologist. He initially rejects her plans to cremate the body there, since he had promised his mother that she would be laid to rest near her husband. But then things go out of hand and he is forced to do so. His mother's soul is carried by the 'panchaboothas' to her final destination.