When Ramesh marries Kusum and hopes to have a better future, things don't go well and in a series of events a cow is accidently killed in his fields. Ramesh has to live in exile as a part of the punishment. Punishment takes a toll on the couple and Ramesh descends into madness. Slowly animals and human die in the village and people blame Kusum because of her past. A pandemic hits the village and villagers had to flee. Having served his sentence Ramesh returns to the empty village like a king.

During a family funeral, Preeti, a middle-class daughter-in-law, faces a crisis when her breast milk dries up, leaving her 4-month-old baby hungry. Desperate, she drinks a glass of undiluted milk—an act deemed a domestic sin under the prevailing social norms.