When the obstinate factory manager tries to sell Masha to a rich man, Ravi unsuccessfully tries to match the bid.

He subsequently gives her the money to escape, and as they part Masha promises to wait for Ravi at every full moon at Calcutta's great Kali temple.

They almost meet one night, but are separated by the chance arrival of Deepa, who Masha thinks is Ravi's wife.

When Yani announces that he has been transferred to Kerala, Masha gets scared at the thought of losing Ravi again and asks him to take some action.

A few years later, Yani visits Ravi and tells him that Masha delivered a boy in Kerala, but he discovered that it was not his, so he expelled them from his house.

He was moved by a radio interview he had earlier heard, of a little girl working as a laborer in an Indian carpet factory which prompted him to leave for India and research a story.

[1] He set his story in Calcutta, which had earlier attracted renowned filmmakers from all over the world like Jean Renoir, Roberto Rossellini, Louis Malle and Roland Joffe to come and make a film in the city.

[3] Preuss, in an interview, stated though the story was written in German by Gallenberger, the Indian setting and Bengali language were chosen to maintain authenticity.

[3] Gallenberger hired a Bengali communicator for a crash course in the language for non-Bengali members of the 100-member crew, which include 10 Germans.