Sundari (Sulochana) is an innocent village beauty with an ineffectual father, adrift in the big, bad city where she is preyed upon by lustful men seeking to force her into prostitution. The hero, Navichand, is a film actor and the film milieu is represented by a studio boss and a comedian, Gazdar, nicknamed Charlie Chaplin. Other features of the urban landscape, besides ‘electric trains, motor cars and buses, the giant wheel, cinemas and theatres’, as the publicity pamphlet claims, include a corrupt policeman, a racecourse and the fictional Bachelor’s Club whose members see Sundari and promptly postpone their collective pledge never to marry.