When the film opens, a girl is recalling the occasions that molded her perspective on the world. Years in the past, her husband, a rich Western-educated landowner, challenged custom by offering her with education, and alluring her out of the seclusion by which married ladies have been stored, to the consternation of extra conservative kin. Assembly her husband's visiting pal from faculty, a pacesetter of an financial rise up in opposition to the British, she takes up his political trigger, regardless of her husbands warnings. Because the story progresses, the connection between the girl and the customer turns into greater than platonic, and the political battles, pitting wealthy in opposition to poor and Hindu in opposition to Moslem, end up to not be fairly so simple as she had first thought.
