The film starts in the times of 1950s where a remote village in Andhra Pradesh suffers from a drought for a very long time. A woman (Veda Sastry) from a traditional family comes forward to dance in a Lord Shiva's temple to appease Shiva to bless their village with rains. She dances continuously for seven days and nights before she dies of exhaustion. Finally, they have rains, and their longstanding drought ends. From then, they make it a tradition that a girl from that dancer's family should dance in Shiva's temple every 12 years on that auspicious day.