A group of women, who are all dead, from different walks of life are living together in a small room. They are all busy with their own errands: a
Hindu woman, Jyoti, performing prayers; a medical student in a lab coat studying; three older
Marathi women playing cards, Sandhya Mhatre, Rama Joshi; a career oriented woman in a suit rocking on a chair; a modern woman, Maya, drinking alcohol; a
burqa-clad
Muslim woman, Arzu, waxing her legs and a mute girl trying to fix the TV set. She manages to get the TV working, a breaking news of a horrific case which has "shaken up the conscience of the country" is being broadcast but before the details of the case are revealed, the TV loses signal again. All the women look at each other scared as if they know what had happened. A few moments later, the doorbell rings which results in arguments among the women about the room being too small to take anymore people and some of women think that the girl outside should be allowed in as she has nowhere else to go. The medical student suggests that not everyone can stay in the room, someone will have to go outside to make room for the new arrival. While trying to decide who leaves to make space, they all reveal their history of abuse, and who and how old their rapist was. Arzu reveals she was burnt to death. Jyoti reveals that she had been strangled and Maya says that her rapist had rammed a beer bottle into her and then threw her on the highway. They all had one thing in common: they were all
raped and murdered excluding the career oriented woman who reveals she committed suicide after the tragedy. With no decision made and the arguments getting out of hand, Jyoti manages to calm them down and announces that no one will leave, and that it will be better to stay in a crowded room than go back to a life of abuse. Before opening the door, reminds them all how scared they were when they first came in the room. She opens the door and brings a child in - this leaves all the women shocked, embarrassed and teary-eyed. The child runs to Savitri and hugs her while a reporter on the TV talks about there being no safety of women in India. The film ends with a caption listing
rape statistics in India and how women are being raped in a country which worships goddesses, alluding to the film's name -
Devi. ==Cast==