A gently nuanced psychological drama, exploring a 3-way relationship between the principle characters and the disaster of conscience that rocks it. A affluent, well-respected lawyer, in love with and engaged to an informed, socially-conscious younger lady, rapes a poor native village milkmaid. The remainder of the story offers with the aftermath of this tragic occasion, with all of the inevitable undercurrents of guilt, penitence and pervasive heartbreak that stem from it.
