Circa British Rule in India, a person vows to make his solely surviving son, Narayan, alias Nani, a Brahmachari to atone for the deaths of 5 of his youngsters. He takes this little one to a distant village in Karnataka, South India, the place he leaves his 11 yr previous son within the care of a discovered Archarya, Udup Pandit. Right here Nani will get to fulfill two different disciples of the Archarya, in addition to his widowed daughter, Yamuna, and one other male by the identify of Shrikar Upadhyay, who additionally teaches the British find out how to learn and write in Hindi. The Archarya goes away for a couple of days, and when he returns nothing is identical anymore. His daughter is pregnant, the villagers are all set to take away her from the village, they're additionally indignant with him for refusing Yamuna to comply with the standard means of a Hindu widow.
