Mani Kaul's first feature film adapts a story by the modern Indian novelist, Mohan Rakesh. A woman lives in a small village in Punjab. Daily the woman makes lunch for her bus-driver husband, and walks it the two miles to his bus route. One day a farmer molests the woman's younger sister and the woman fails to deliver her husband's lunch. In a severe look at the inequalities by which traditional Indian life is maintained, the film renders the consequences of this major interruption in the routine of the bus-driver husband.