The movie, which received the 1988 Nationwide Movie Award for Greatest First Movie of a Director for its "glorious exploration of advanced philosophical theme for the primary time in Indian cinema," is about within the Buddhist city of Sariput within the desert of Central Asia within the 1st century B.C. The city is struck by a devastating sand storm that leaves behind solely 4 survivors: two monks and two kids taking refuge within the monastery. Twenty years later, the monks have change into outdated, whereas the boy and the lady have grown and fallen in love. The jealous monk deceitfully persuades the boy into turning into a monk, but the lady wins him again, consequently each are expelled from the monastery, and that's when the sandstorm strikes as soon as once more..
