Ghatak drew on his own experiences as a young dramatist in the 1950s, when he traveled from village to village with a radical theater troupe, for this portrait of a young man whose mission in life is to reach the populace through his People's Theater Group. Bhrigu (Abanish Bannerjee) is a refugee from Bangladesh who seeks the meaning of patriotism in a partitioned country through his work in experimental theater; but his very passion contributes to the splintering off of part of his group into a rival faction. He finds his soul-mate in an actress, Anasuya (Supriya Choudhury), who is herself torn between two men and two rival theater groups. "What Ghatak is up to in this challenging drama is nothing less than the exploration of emotional and actual spaces and sounds that partition human beings, politically, geographically, and aesthetically." (Film Society of Lincoln Center)