A interval drama, the movie is predicated on Ismat Chugtai's most celebrated story "Lihaaf" (printed 1942). The movie inter weaves the plot of identical intercourse relationship between Begum and her masseuse and the trial that Ismat underwent after being slapped with a case of obscenity on publishing the story. The movie raises themes of homosexuality and freedom of speech that our society is grappling with even at this time.
