 A love tragedy featuring a policeman, Moti (Modak) and a prostitute, Kesar (Hublikar). Moti saves Kesar from a police raid on a brothel and they fall in love. Her reputation and sense of guilt resist his attempts to rehabilitate her. Moti s respectable middle-class mother (Sundarabai) symbolizes all that Kesar would like to be, but she is arrested for murdering her evil uncle and refuses Moti s offer to release her from prison.