Set in 2022, Deham (meaning 'The Body') depicts a world where the biological divide between the wealthy West and the impoverished East has reached a parasitic extreme. The narrative follows Om, a man living in a cramped, high-tech tenement in Mumbai, who signs a contract with a multinational corporation to become an organ donor for a 'Receiver' in the United States. This arrangement involves the installation of a Inter-Placentary Transmitter, allowing the buyer to monitor and eventually claim the donor's biological assets.

The film explores a societal dynamic where the human body is the only remaining currency for the poor. The urban environment is portrayed as a hyper-congested digital slum, where technology serves primarily to facilitate the surveillance and extraction of physical resources from the Global South to the Global North. Earth is depicted as a planet bifurcated by 'clean' and 'dirty' zones, where the survival of one demographic necessitates the literal consumption of another.

While the film’s specific technology for remote biological monitoring and total body transfer has not materialized by the real 2022, its critique of transnational organ trafficking remains strikingly relevant. Critics note that the film predicted the commodification of the human body through digital legal frameworks, echoing real-world concerns regarding bio-piracy and the ethics of medical tourism. The depiction of a world where one can 'rent' or 'buy' the health of another through corporate intermediaries serves as a heightened allegory for modern economic disparities.