Human mind, it is where people who are still alive are dead and those dead are alive. Demise of our dear ones are always a loss . May be it doesn't mean the connection is lost . The story portrays the life of 2 students Devi and Deepak who lost their partners and met with severe trauma . Evolving from the numbness never fulfilled their grief. The longing for them connects these characters together in the land of varanasi . 'Masaan ' or burial ground the title signifies the land of varanasi where a group of people live depending on the traditional labour of cremation alone and the place being the witness of the whole cycle of life .