Leela, a woman in her forties, returns to her ancestral home after her mother Pankajam's death. There, she is drawn back to the pond they once shared, a place her mother loved, a place that once embodied her spirit. As Leela performs the final rites, memories begin to surface: of her mother, and a story she told her as a child about the pond and its myth. Yakshi is an attempt to tell the story of the ecosystems that shape us and their slow, often unnoticeable decline. It is a story of women, and how their grief translates into and forges relationships with water and nature, and how they find shelter and sanctuary within it.