Pavitra, a thirteen year old girl, is reeling from the death of her identical twin sister, Gayatri, who was killed by a boar on a hunting trip. Their people are nomadic, living on a land named Bhoomi. Once, the land had allowed for agriculture and settlements, but now she would break out in frequent earthquakes and would refuse to be farmed as before. Songs tell the story of how the land grew angry and hostile due to constant fighting over her ownership. Now, the people living on Bhoomi must hunt for sustenance.  In denial, Pavatri cannot accept a reality in which her sister is dead, so she comes to believe that she is Gayatri, shocking everyone in her pack with her declaration of this identity. She then runs off into the forest to hunt. She sees a deer and kills it, but instead of collapsing, it turns into smoke, which then forms into a being with the body of a woman and the head of a deer. The creature, a yakshini, claims that Pavatri has just saved her, and tells her it will grant her a reward if she follows her into another realm. Pavatri asks for invulnerability. In the realm, Pavatri realizes that the yakshini is imprisoning the souls of children in stone pillars. A voice from a pillar, a soul trapped there for more than a thousand years, tells Pavatri the story of the many children trapped there. Horrified, Pavatri tries to escape while the yakshini is temporarily away, but she cannot cross back over into her home realm. She watches through a magic window as her pack decides to relocate without Pavatri, as the earthquakes where they currently live are growing more serious, and they could not wait for her return. Pavatri, who has believed she is Gayatri this entire time, comes to the painful realization that her sister is dead, and that she is not her. Pavitra decides the only way to stop the yakshini from imprisoning more children is to call Yama, the god of death, to this realm. He would stop the yakshini, as its actions were keeping many souls from his reach. Pavitra forces a snake to bite her and poison her fatally, knowingly sacrificing her life to call Yama. The god comes, vanishes the souls in the pillars and the yakshini, and tells Pavitra he is indebted to her. Yama cannot bring Gayatri back to life, but offers to reincarnate both her and Pavitra in another life. However, Pavitra cannot bear to leave her pack, so Yama offers to let her live, to reincarnate Gayatri close to her, and to allow the pack to survive until Gayatri grows up, so that Pavitra can bring her up as the pack’s protector. Pavitra agrees, and Yama creates this new reality.