Gauri lives in a small village in India with her crippled ex-army-man and freedom fighter dad Laxmandas and a younger brother Gulab and makes a living working as a laborer. One day she notices a male lurking around their house; this male subsequently introduces himself as Ranjeet who has just arrived from Bombay. Ranjeet and Gauri become friends after Ranjeet treats a wound on Gauri's foot and then both fall in love with each other. What Gauri and Laxmandas do not know is that Ranjeet is in this village for a reason: a suitcase of gold that he himself buried five years ago...