It is a short novel written when the author was in Bombay and tells the story of an innocent village belle jilted by a modern man-about-town.
It is set entirely in Mukkam, a rustic village on the banks of the Iruvanjippuzha, a major tributary of River Chaliyar.
[1] Written initially as a film treatment and later converted into a novel, it was serialised in Kerala Kaumudi newspaper and released as a book in August 1941.
[4] Ravindran, a young rich man from Kozhikode, is living anonymously in Mukkam, a small village on the banks of Iruvanjippuzha.
The final chapter shows Ravi living happily with Raghavan in the estate he has newly purchased in Mukkam.