While driving his car on a rainy night Anand`s car breaks down and he goes to seek shelter in a nearby house. He is let into the house by the servant and he is permitted to stay until the rains stop and he is able to get his car fixed. It is here that Anand will find out about his previous birth his true love Madhumati their ill-fated star-crossed and tragic romance and how this the events in his previous birth are going to effect him in this life-time.