The spirit of a condemned 20-year-old scholar wanders by time, linking collectively 4 tales of individuals struggling for survival on this gritty meditation on poverty, pure catastrophe and political strife in India. A middle-class household's residence isn't any match for the monsoons, whereas one other clan's morality is compromised when famine strikes. Younger boys smuggle rice, and politicians pity the poor whereas residing within the lap of luxurious.