[4][5] The novel is one of the literary gems of Assamese language which continues to rule the heart of lakhs of people.

The novel starts with the narrator, a clerk dreaming of a perfect married life with kids, who suddenly gets sucked into a black hole.

He wakes up startled to realise that he is supposed to go on an expedition that very day with his four friends - a professor, a doctor, a poet and a clerk, much like the narrator himself.

The five friends want to leave the humdrum of their routine life for a month and embark on a boat journey along the river Dihing in the hopes of coming across an unexplored land.

After moving upstream on their boat for 15 days they unexpectedly come across a tribe of aboriginals in the dense jungles.

After feasting and spending the night with the tribe, the next morning they face the revolt of their boatman and navigators who believe any journey further upstream will bring doom upon them all as the place is cursed.

As they travel further, they are astounded by the breathtaking scenery at first, but as the night falls they are stuck in a violent rainstorm that takes them off course.

Once the storm subsides they realise that their Professor friend is disoriented and sick and seems to be zoning in and out of his memories of his homeland from his previous birth, 1300 years ago.

He then rushes off to Kamalnagar with Ashok to watch the annual bullfighting event on the occasion of Bihu.

Their beautiful life, which they wasted in sweet and sour and often massive fights, abruptly faces the most dreaded consequence as a large army approaches to attack Kamalnagar.

Lakshminarayan, the mayor, Ashok, the second office bearer, and Chandan are initially unnerved as Kamalnagar had not fought a war in centuries.

Champa and her friend, in order to save their lives, drop a roof of a temple on a troop of enemy soldiers.

Gauri shows her patience and courage to safely bring Chandan back home.

Friends’ hearts fill with innate human emotions as they repair the boat and sail back home.