Hari Mondal(Om Puri) is a poor village farmer who lives within the distant Bengal village of Giripur in Birbhum district along with his spouse, two sons, brother, an previous widowed aunt Kalidashi (Gita Sen)and her daughter Panchi. The film opens within the mid sixties when the Naxalbari rebellion is spreading throughout Bengal and oppressed farmers are being united by youths who imagine in communism and a socialist republic.