It is 1947, just before the partition of India, and the Hindu fisherman Kuber briefly accepts an offer by Hossain to ferry some of the community's cargo from the island.

Rasu (Sunil Mukherjee) and Aminuddin (Rabi Ghosh) say that Moynadeep is infested with lions and tigers, and there is forest all around.

His wife is beset with a leg deformity, and his daughter is grown up and engaged to a local man.

On return, he brings along his sister-in-law Kapila (Roopa Ganguly) with a ton of small kids.

Staying with a deformed wife and coupled with amorous gestures from his alluring sister-in-law Kubir succumbs to her wishes of passion play.

Hossain Miya tells he can absolve him of the theft charge, but in return Kubir must go to Moynadeep.

[7] Derek Malcolm, writing in Variety, said the ravishingly photographed film is "sure to make its mark as quality arthouse and fest fare".

He wrote that it "is too deeply anchored to the riverbank ... one would like to see the fishermen more often in their element, working in their boats, grappling with the river".