Four 30-something, upper-caste men, educated and unmarried, take off for a few days of adventure in a rustic district populated by Santhals, an Indigenous group, a few hundred miles northwest of the men’s native Kolkata (then known as Calcutta). Harinath (Samit Bhanja) is a self-involved sportsman; Sekhar (the comic actor Rabi Ghosh) is a clownish ne’er-do-well; sensitive Sanjoy (Subhendu Chatterjee) and diffident Ashim (Ray’s frequent leading man Soumitra Chatterjee) are would-be writers who have abandoned their youthful ambitions.