Roya is a middle-class Muslim woman that struggles to find herself in the sprawl of urban Bangladesh. When she discovers that she will be replaced by a younger actor for the role of Nandini —a central character of Rabindranath Tagore’s political play Red Oleanders —she battles to reconstruct the part, reclaiming her identity and sexuality in the process. As she sets the play in a modern day ready-made garment factory in Dhaka, her journey to establish her individuality is juxtaposed with the journey of her housemaid Moyna, who later joins the industrial workforce.

A beggar called Lyangra (the cripple guy), who lives at the railway station, regularly goes to the house of Kaala, a drug dealer, to buy his weed from him. When kaala's wife sohagi catches his eye, lyangra starts trying to get closer to kaala and eventually has an affair with sohagi. when kaala finds out he beats sohagi and she runs away with lyangra to his hometown. when she hears there that lyangra is a convicted murderer, who runs away from place to place just to avoid his sentence, sohagi gets scared and she wants to return to kaala.

A beggar called Lyangra (the cripple guy), who lives at the railway station, regularly goes to the house of Kaala, a drug dealer, to buy his weed from him. When kaala's wife sohagi catches his eye, lyangra starts trying to get closer to kaala and eventually has an affair with sohagi. when kaala finds out he beats sohagi and she runs away with lyangra to his hometown. when she hears there that lyangra is a convicted murderer, who runs away from place to place just to avoid his sentence, sohagi gets scared and she wants to return to kaala.

Shimu, 23, works in a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Faced with difficult conditions at work, she decides to start a union with her co-workers. Despite threats from the management and disapproval of her husband, Shimu is determined to go on. Together the women must fight and find a way to register their union.