Girdharilal lives in a village in India, together with his wife, Parvati, and younger step-brother, Gopiram alias Gopi, who is unemployed, unorthodox, simple-minded, and a trouble-maker. Girdharilal runs this household by making clay images of Hindu Gods and Godesses, and selling them to the village's zamindar for a small fee. 

Gopi finds out that the zamindar has been re-selling these images for ten times the price he pays Girdharilal, so he decides to confront the zamindar, and as a result, he does get paid a higher amount, but is entrapped in a web of lies and deceit, and is thrown out of the house by Girdharilal. With no life-skills to his credit, will Gopi be able to survive on his own?