[3] Aparna Verma (Nandita Das), who has been married to a travelling salesman Suresh for several years, is now pregnant.

Aparna subsequently learns that Suresh has been having unprotected sex with other women, had acquired AIDS, and passed it on to her.

She confers with her mother, finds out about a rehabilitation house called "Jivan Jyoti," and goes there to volunteer without telling anyone about her condition.

Now divorced, Aparna feels herself getting attracted to another worker, George (Rajit Kapur), who is a truck driver and also works in Jivan Jyoti.

Aparna takes Paro to a boarding school for admission, where she meets George after a long time.