The central character of this story is a young village girl, attending a leading school and already come under the influence of consumerism. Into her life comes a man who embodies and symbolizes all that is consumerism the acquisitiveness, ruthlessness and the compulsive ambition to rise in the social ladder at any cost. Their association inevitably brings a disaster to the girl and her family. The girl, whose future career is affected, makes a desperate attempt to get her seducer to marry her. But he has his own ambition and schemes. Once she realizes the futility of her wish, she decides to fight back with a vengeance. There is only one option left to her to plan her own physical destruction at the hand of the man who ruined her and thereby pave the way for his final destruction too. Unwillingly and unknowingly he plays into her hands.
