Our Alibi Was Trending at the Residency Gate After Midnight

By Prashant Mishra

When Zoya Mir, a twenty-year-old museum fellow living inside a railway colony in Bhopal, stumbles upon a locked cloud folder that updates only while she sleeps, she is pulled into a conspiracy older than anyone will admit. Alongside Kabir, a grieving musician whose missing parent left behind more questions than photographs, Zoya begins unraveling a manipulated championship result that hid organised betting and buried the people who knew too much. But when a doctored video destroys her credibility overnight, she has one chance to expose everything at a live public event before the truth is sealed away again. In a story where grief becomes a weapon and trust is the only alibi that matters, Zoya must decide how much she is willing to lose to make the colony remember correctly.