A social film critiquing decadent urban values, it tells of Sundarlal who leaves his wife Lalita and children to make a living in the city where he succumbs to depravity and vice. His son dies and his beautiful daughter Sarju defends her virtue and tries to support her mother in conditions of extreme misery. Dressed as a man and accompanied by the blind Baldev, she scours the city in search of her father, encountering difficulties, including a drunken millionaire she rescues with whom she falls in love even though he mistakes her for a boy.