In the village of Modhupur, the new mother Julekha?s breasts dry up, but to everyone?s consternation, her little baby finds a dog to suckle on; Allah?s angel gives little Khobir fifty takas to buy sweets but his gambling father snatches the money away; journalist Jamil spirals hearing that all communication has been cut off in his hometown of Roop Nagar after a girl is gangraped, hacked, cooked and eaten by young men; Modhu, a penniless farmhand, leaves for Dhaka to drive a rickshaw two weeks a month, while his wife is actively wooed and seduced by his neighbour; Aminul Islam gets slaughtered at a butcher?s shop in broad daylight on protesting the spiking of pure lamb meat with sheep and goat-meat.