Setters is an edge of the seat thriller based on true incidents set in the city of Benaras, Jaipur, Mumbai and Delhi, which focuses on the subject of the nexus run by people who set and leak examination papers while making a fortune out of it. Honest cop Aditya (Aftab Shivdasani) is called upon to crack the nexus who are behind the business of leaking and selling examination papers to job aspirants. How he and his team go about tracking and cracking the culprits and how big a business racket it has become in India forms the backbone of the story.