[1][2] It describes the naive Parvateesam running away from home in Mogalthur, a small town that he calls a "famous historical city" in the West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, to become a barrister.
With the struggle for independence barely beginning in south India, Parvateesam decides to leave for England because his teacher and friends taught him; he thinks becoming a barrister is the only way to redeem himself.
After spending a few days in London, he travels to Edinburgh in Scotland on the advice of a recent acquaintance to study at university there.
Much to his embarrassment, he is feted by his high school and the local Bar association for having returned from a foreign land with an advanced education.
He forgets for a moment that he is back in his traditional and conservative village where no form of physical contact is allowed between the opposite sexes.
He gets married and starts to practice law in the Madras High Court, under the tutelage of a senior advocate and Tanguturi Prakasam Panthulu.