The sudden boom in industrialisation threatens to take away the fertile lands from a village wherein honest, hard-working people work to make a living.

A rich young man must prove his love for a simple village belle; she is humiliated by his family, so he opts to rusticate with hers.

Uma, a mute Brahmin girl, lives with her uncle's family as she is an orphan. Since Uma has a faulty horoscope which indicate widowhood, the family finds it impossible to get her married off. According to a custom prevalent at the time, Uma is given in marriage to a tree.