Gangacharan is the brand new Brahmin of a village, the place he assumes numerous duties: instructing, organizing spiritual occasions, and attempting to forestall epidemics. However in that 12 months 1943, conflict is raging (as reminded by the planes often heard flying over the countryside), and a significant famine is underneath means. As meals shortages attain catastrophic proportions, Gangacharan makes an attempt to protect his privileged state of affairs, whereas his beneficiant spouse, Ananga, conversely tries to assist and assist the neighborhood.
