

Balagopalan, an educated man, strives to save his earnings for his sister's marriage. He also deals with responsibilities towards his family in a society that is ailing from widespread unemployment.

After an engineer is shot dead, several people around him relate different versions and the related incidents that may have led to the murder.

A wanderer/revolutionary is a dead ringer for a monarch, and takes his place.

An amoral, hypocritical worker with Communist leanings learns the consequences of his callousness and redeems himself.