It is about an unmarried young couple, intensely in love, escaping to a small town to live together, defying the conventional norms and coming to grips with the harsh realities of life and living, which turns their dream into a nightmare. The struggle between the ideal and the real, love and the fear of losing the object of love, the crisis of conscience caused by the pressure of mundane needs, bring to the fore the human predicament, the spiritual degeneration of man – a theme which recurs in his later films too.
This story revolves around a couple defying societal norms to live together, facing the harsh realities of their dream turning into a nightmare due to the clash between ideal and reality, love versus fear, and the pressure of mundane needs that lead to moral conflicts and spiritual decline – a theme also present in his later films.