The spirit of a condemned 20-year-old student wanders through time, linking together four stories of people struggling for survival in this gritty meditation on poverty, natural disaster and political strife in India. A middle-class family's home is no match for the monsoons, while another clan's morality is compromised when famine strikes. Young boys smuggle rice, and politicians pity the poor while living in the lap of luxury.

1970년대 벵골. 생계를 위해 고군분투하는 서민 남녀와 부유하고 유명한 이들이 서민들의 참상을 모르고 인생을 즐기는 모습을 단편으로 소개한다.