A teenage boy is hired along with the music group of his father by a Zamindar (landlord) for entertaining him until the annual flood is over in the Haor region of East Bengal. But the boy finds out that he has to do something more than the rest of the members of the group are required- he has to satisfy the landlord sensually as well. The wife of the landlord cannot stand this new 'rival' of hers and conspires to kill the boy.
A 40 year old painter, who lives in a wooden and bamboo house on stilts in the middle of a polluted lake on the outskirts of Dhaka City. Alpha's house serves as his painting. Dogs, roosters and birds also share the space with him. There are many moments when he feels a oneness with nature and with the birds and animals that surround him. He also feels deeply drawn to 'an androgynous' male-female identity. Alpha has neighbors in the nearby slum with whom he has close interaction.
The depiction of a deprived person is the Nekabbarer. He who lost his wealth in the wrong way, joined the liberation war of 1971, he lost his lover, lost a leg in the war. After the war crippled the rest of the life has to be spent. He had to stay in the madhouse. Nekabbarer went out of the garrison to starve, got the deprivation of society and the lance. Nekabbarer faced death, for ending their deprivation.
