A tomato juice seller of a major American company arrives in Greece to promote his company's product.

In a village in Meghalaya, northeast India, several young men mysteriously disappear during the night. While the elders accuse passing strangers of kidnapping, the preacher sees the beginnings of an apocalypse lasting 40 days and 40 nights which will plunge the inhabitants of the village into darkness. Seen through the eyes of Kasan, a ten-year-old boy suffering from night blindness, the surrounding forests have never seemed so terrifying.

Philip, 85, has been living in hope, over the last 30 years, that one day he will be reunited with his wife in afterlife. But his yearning is jeopardised by the dream he had about her—in which he searched for her among the crowd of women in a barren landscape, but he could not recognise her face.