The year is 2018, the agrarian crisis was and still continues to be one of the most prominent devils that the farmers are fighting. ‘Mandi’ came when the protest had just begun to catch momentum, and the community had finally found its voice. The film opens to a sequence where a wife is seeing off her husband who sets out to sell his onions. She hands over Rs 200 to get material to decorate their bullock to celebrate Pola (a festival celebrated in rural parts of Maharashtra to thank the cattle for their help in farming). But he is up to face a nightmare at the market.