Narasinga Raos debut is an existential melodrama with the director playing a romantic painter Ravi whose friends include a trade union leader Kakarala an autorickshaw driver a Marxist journalist Narayana Rao and a glib successful painter Saichand whose success contrasts with Ravis inability to sell his own work His neighbour Kankamma who rejects an evil landlords advances is evicted from her house the trade unionist is killed in police custody and Ravi starts exhibiting his work on the streets to indicate his growing politicisation to the satisfaction of his Marxist friend The film is geared to the CPIMLled political movements in Northern AP and included the compositions and songs of the regions bestknown radical poet and performer Gaddar