The story is about a girl who grows up almost like an orphan in a joint family of two brothers and their families. She has lost her mother (a sister of the brothers) in childhood and her father is a habitual gambler with a bad luck. She develops romance with one of the two cousins in the house.

故事背景设置在印巴分治后的1947年，讲述巴基斯坦东部一个印度教家庭迁至印度。