 Ramachandra Mangaraj, a wily village zamindar, eyes a small plot of land belonging to a weaver couple. Conspiring together with his concubine, the priest and the barber, he exploits their simple trust in the village goddess s power. Together they plot and entrust upon the couple that they would be blessed with children if they build a temple for the Goddess. He defrauds them of their six acres and a third by taking it as mortgage and later ruining them both in the process of acquiring the piece of land. Though the zamindar s wife is against all this. Barely six months later he is himself ruined through a concatenation of events, losing his estate to his lawyer Ram Ram Lala and eventually his life.