 The story is set around Ranirghat of Murshidabad District in West Bengal in the early 1950s.It is the story of a 20-year-old orphan called Faltu (faltu in Bengali means worthless, junk) and his search for the man who has fathered him.This is also the account of a village and its people, woven around a narrative with myriad moments and a lot of dramatic events.