The Golden Thread

Ishwar Chakraborty (Abhi Bhattacharya) walks out of a refugee shanty town on the edge of Calcutta to take a job at an iron foundry, bringing his sister Sita (Madhabi Mukherjee) and Abhiram, an orphaned boy he has taken in. The people he leaves behind, East Bengal refugees like himself, call it desertion. Ritwik Ghatak sets a man's honest wish for a steady living against the neighbors who say he has sold them out.