During India's freedom movement Bilu, an Indian revolutionary is sentenced to death.

The second, third and fourth chapter narrate the same story from his father, mother and brother's perspectives.

[5] It narrates common Bengali people's involvement in India's freedom movement.

Satinath Bhaduri had direct experience of contemporary Indian politics and the Quit India movement.

Sisir Kumar Das, in his book History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956, struggle for freedom : triumph and tragedy wrote that this novel is "one of the finest political novel" written in Bengali.