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.
The film tells the story of an old colonial house and how its inhabitants save it from the hands of money hungry promoters in modern day Calcutta.
