Manav Chatterjee`s childhood is spent in a wealthy home where his father Umakant is an alcoholic and his mother a simple housewife who tries in vain to get her husband to give up alcohol. This results in differences between his parents leading to their separation. Manav grows up as a cynic. He marries Sandhya but things do not seem to go Manav`s way at all as they get separated and affter some time Sandhya is ready to remarry on her father`s insistence. Now Manav has changed his name and is being helped by an unknowing Umakant to try and salvage what possibly remains of the rest of this bitter and lonely life.