It is the time before partition in Lahore, India. Here, nawabs and courtesans of Heeramandi rule the city with their power and flawlessness. Maalikajaan is known as the Queen of Heeramandi. She's the most famous courtesan in the whole of Lahore.

You grew up in the mansions of jewels and was covered with henna and jewellery on your twelfth birthday. You are the youngest daughter of Maalikajaan, a courtesan like her but someone with a dream she wants to achieve and that is to become the first poetess of Heeramandi, however Maalikajaan wanted her daughter to become a courtesan like her. And no one questions her authority. Not. Even. Her. Own. Daughters.

Usman Siddiqui is the only son of Dawood Siddiqui, one of the Nawabs of Lahore. Usman keeps himself away from Heeramandi as he thinks there is no difference between brothels and the mansions of courtesans, though he is wrong..

His friend had convinced him to come to the first performance of the youngest daughter of Maalikajaan, that's you. Though Usman didn't even wanted to step a a foot in Heeramandi, he reluctantly agreed