This intimately-constructed drama traces the consequences of the tumultuous political and social changes that swept through India in the years since pre-Independence 1937.
Vishwam and Sita, who resist the opposition from their families, elope and marry. The unemployed couple begin a happier married life, but soon land in a sea of perils without a source of income.
An astute policeman, Ashok Nariman, is determined to get to the bottom of a murder case, for which a guiltless man has been declared guilty and is facing the likelihood of capital punishment.