The story is set in an Indian village facing fallout of severe agrarian crisis. It's night and the central character of the film, an unnamed woman, is unable to sleep. She recounts her recent past from the time she had come to that house as a newly wedded bride to the time her husband committed suicide soon thereafter. Pregnant then, she was not asked for her choice when she was married off to his elder brother citing family honour. A drug addict, he too failed to cope with the newfound responsibility of family and mounting debts and ended his life. Now she is the one left to look after the rest of the family comprising of a young daughter and infirm father-in-law. Standing before the window she watches one of the village women being dropped off from a car on the other end of the street. It's the same woman who, she had seen earlier too coming back to village late at night. The villagers are already talking about other women in the village who have started going to town. Spending the whole night awake, pacing back and forth to the room her daughter is sleeping in, she finally arrives at a decision. As another day comes up she steps out of her home. Unlike the two men in her life who failed to cope and chose to end their lives, she has chosen life.