It is the story of a young school teacher and his experiences in a small village of shepherds in the princely state of Aundh during the 1940s.

The story begins with a young school teacher, played by Chandrakant Kulkarni, walking alone towards a village called Bangarwadi, across a deserted landscape.

He runs the school for the next few months and helps the illiterate and the needy in the village, which sometimes lands him into trouble.

The teacher tries his best to get help from the government, writing frequent letters describing the graveness of situation, but he gets no response.

Drought forces the people of Bangarwadi to abandon the village, leaving the school teacher alone and with no students.