The film is set in pre-independence feudal India in 1945. Vishwam is the youngest brother of the powerful and influential village
jagirdar (feudal lord). The jagirdar will not hesitate to do anything for the welfare and protection of his family, which also includes bending the law to his own advantage. The shy and quiet Vishwam is married to Rukmani, while his brothers Anjaiya and Prasad make it a practice to demand the services of any village woman they fancy. The village gets a new schoolmaster, who arrives in the village with a wife, Sushila, and a son. When Vishwam sees Sushila for the first time, he is unable to take his eyes off her and is unable to get her out of his mind. Sushila does not reciprocate his feelings. One night, while the schoolmaster is enjoying a quiet dinner with his family, someone knocks on the door. When Shushila goes to answer the door, Anjaiya and Prasad take her away forcibly. Several people are present, but no one dares to raise a hand or voice to stop this abduction. At the jagirdar's house, Sushila is raped regularly and repeatedly at the will of the jagirdar and his brothers. The distraught schoolteacher, who is denied justice by everyone from the local police officer to the district collector, is helped by the old pujari of the village temple. They succeed in mobilising the villagers who slaughter their oppressors. In the end, the frenzied villagers also kill the innocent Rukmani, as well as Sushil, whom her husband was trying to rescue. ==Cast ==