After an old school companion extends to him an employment opportunity at an iron foundry, the upstanding and legitimate Ishwar leaves a shanty town on the edges of Calcutta where he resides with a gathering of displaced people from East Bengal. With plans to fashion a strong living for himself, sister Sita and Abhiram, a stranded kid he offers a home to, Ishwar is blamed for selling out and abandoning his kin. Bit by bit the mankind in him is squashed.