Bimala (Swatilekha Chatterjee), the wife of landlord-king Nikhil (Victor Bannerjee), lives contentedly in the seclusion of her apartment, interacting with few others.  But when her liberal, western-educated husband convinces her to break custom and step into the world beyond, their lives are changed forever. Set in 1908, Ray's adaptation of Rabindranath Tagore's novel examines the clash of Indian and western cultural values.
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