Starring Abhi Bhattacharya, Madhabi Mukherjee, Satindra Bhattacharya, Gita De Story Radheyshyam Screenplay Ritwik Ghatak Cinematography Dilipranjan Mukherjee Editing Ramesh Joshi Sound Satyen Chatterjee, Shyam Sundar Ghosh Art Direction Rabi Chatterjee Music Bahadur Khan Produced by J.J. Films Corporation ****Synopsis Iswar (Abhi Bhattacharya) and his younger kid sister Sita, victims of the partition of Bengal stay in Nabajeeban Colony in Calcutta. While fighting for their individual survival, Iswar and his friend Haraprasad also look into the problems of the suffering refugees. A little boy Abhiram is left alone when his mother is abducted. Iswar takes him under his wing. A college friend of Ishwar offers him a job as cashier for his iron foundry in Chhatimpur on the Subarnarekha. Iswar accepts and goes there with Abhiram and Sita. Haraprasad calls Ishwar a deserter. At Chhatimpur across their house, the children discover an abandoned airstrip and find it a most attractive playground. When the manager of the foundry becomes insane since his daughter deserted him, Iswar is promoted to the post. Abhiram (Satindra Bhattacharya) comes home after his B.A. exams and Sita, a young woman now (Madhabi Mukherjee) and he fall in love. Iswar gets the news that Haraprasad's wife has committed suicide due to the suffering of their children. She implores Iswar to take care of them but Haraprasad refuses to hand them over to a deserter. Iswar wants Abhiram to go to Germany but he wants to settle down in Calcutta and write. Sita convinces Abhiram to stick to his convictions. Iswar's friend wants to make him a partner but he is not happy with Abhiram's presence and his unknown caste origins. That same day Abhiram discovers his mother, a dying low-caste woman. He now has to bear the burden of his caste identity. Iswar snubs him and looks for a match for Sita. Sita and Abhiram elope to Calcutta. They struggle to make ends meet there and have a five year old son, Binu. Abhiram unable to get a publisher for his writings, gets a bus driver's job. Haraprasad meets Iswar and in their defeat and despair the two decide to go to Calcutta and lose themselves in pleasure. Abhiram is beaten up and killed following an accident. In search for further pleasures Iswar comes to Sita's house who is waiting for her first customer. Without glasses he doesn't recognize her but on seeing him, she kills herself. Iswar recognizes her as her blood splashes on him. Two years later Iswar is released as it is proved that it was suicide rather than murder as he claimed. Haraprasad brings Binu to him but leaves without meeting Iswar. Binu and Iswar get down at Chhatimpur. Iswar is told he is fired and has lost the house as well. Binu calls him uncle and Iswar picks him up, overcome by emotion. The two trudge together on the sandy, rocky track...