Nilkantha, an artist, is admitted in a mental asylum but even while undergoing treatment, he manages to write a play.
The movie is about a poet and singer Lalon Fakir who belongs to a cult called baul and who believes and inculcates that the value of a human being is above the narrow belief of religions.
The violence and upheaval of Calcutta in the 1970s is focalized through a young man coming to the city to study.
