Issaq is the Romeo and Juliet story transposed to Banaras and its neighbouring areas that are witness to violence unleashed by sand mafia controlled by urban elite and equally violent retaliation by Naxalite armies. The sand mafia is run by two influential Banarasi families, Kashyaps and Mishras, who are at brutal feud with each other.
Kashyap has an 18 year old, pretty and innocent daughter Bachchi from his first wife, Bachchi's (Amyra Dastur). On the other hand, Mishra's son Rahul (Prateik) is a good-looking teenager with predictable interests for a boy of his background - girls & guns!
Things change when the battle-hardened and pleasure-seeking Rahul and romantic yet head strong Bachchi fall in love. Disregarding the consequences, the young lovers choose go ahead with the feelings of their hearts. What follows is a high octane action-filled drama.