[2] The film tells the story of a model who poses nude to earn money for her son's education.
She lives with her teenage son Lakshman and husband who has an open illicit relationship and spends her earnings and jewellery on the other woman.
After a minor tiff on the nature of the job, Akke reveals to Yamuna that she has been doing this for past 15 to 20 years and it is a noble work of education.
One fine day she finds paintings in his school bag and figures out his inclination towards arts.
However Akke and Yamuna fear that one day Lakshman might join the same college and their secret would be exposed.
One day, renowned artist M. F. Hussain arrives in Mumbai and she is requested to pose nude for him.
Yamuna is deeply shattered and feels that one day she would suffer the same fate of Akke and die in pain, agony and poverty.