Maya Menon (Vidya Balan) is a successful, rich, hard hitting, truth telling, influential TV journalist, with high morals. She hosts a successful TV show aptly called “Face The Truth” and enjoys celebrity status which is also desired by her competitors, peers and juniors alike. In her private life, she lives with her son, Ayush, who has cerebral palsy, and her mother. She is somewhat in a romantic relationship with her boss. Maya is on great terms with her ex-husband who’s now happily married to his current Russian wife and they have a baby boy. All in all, her life seems perfect until one fateful night Maya falls asleep at the wheel of her car whilst driving home late from work. She inadvertently hits a young girl who suddenly appears in front of her car out of nowhere. After the accident she stops and sees another bystander who’s fleeing the scene and she gets spooked and flees the scene of the accident not knowing that it’s all captured on a nearby CCTV camera.
