India, Feb. 8 -- A stalker reports that his ex-girlfriend has gone missing in the early days of the lockdown in 2020 Germany and accuses an Afghan immigrant for it. The police have to investigate the disappearance during the dire health crisis even as they are conscious that the immigrant might be a target. Months later, a reporter comes seeking the story. Thus begins Avtar Singh's Into The Forest.

Ahilya moves to an unnamed quaint town situated at the foot of a forest in Germany with her husband and a teenage son. She is detached from her husband and isn't needed by her son who is growing fast. She is neither interested in befriending people from the Indian community nor in being polite to the Germans, who make it clear that they are do...