The prisoner transport of a terrorist from Chandanghad to Mumbai was expected to be a routine mission but it ended as a nightmare. The first escort team of police officers was ambushed midway and could hardly prevent that the apparently dangerous criminal did not escape. Now another team was being sent to do this job from Mumbai, lead by DCP Anant Shrivastav "The Professor" (Amitabh Bachchan). A Police officer in the winter of his career, a failure in the establishment's eyes and more important, in his own. Now on the eve of his daughter's wedding, Shrivastav was being given this crucial assignment. This was his one last chance to do something and to make a difference. Three officers accompanied by two constables, now given the charge of escorting a dreaded terrorist, and a crucial witness in the case against him, from Chandanghad to Mumbai. A group of men all fighting their own demons who were going to confront some very, very real ones. Because someone out there didn't want them to get to Mumbai. A nameless, faceless enemy who lurked in the shadows, who was always one step ahead of them. An enemy who would do all he could to stop them. Whatever it took. A three day assignment would become a never-ending nightmare. An overnight journey would become a journey into a dark world of brutality, corruption, conspiracies and terror, a journey into fear...