At its heart, "Dabba Cartel" flips the classic "good people do bad things" crime story on its head. The series follows five seemingly ordinary, middle-class women living in a Mumbai suburb who start a harmless 'dabba' (tiffin) service from their kitchen. However, their entrepreneurial dream takes a dark and unexpected turn when they get pulled into the dangerous world of an illegal drug cartel, eventually running their own narcotics empire from behind their stoves.