A school master and his students at a small school in a village in Maharashtra fight against all odds to keep the school open against the efforts of many in the village who would prefer the children work instead of attend school.
Generations of a closely-knit, humorous community of sugarcane labourers have been migrating yearly in search of work. Vitthal belongs to the young, educated generation of the community, but political apathy and lazy governance have kept them socially backward.
