They seem to know each other like the back of their hands. Yet, there is something awkward about their relationship. Nikita finds even the most innocent of touches by Neeraj to be so repulsive. Aniket, her colleague, has proposed to her and she is seriously considering it. Yet, she can’t let go of Neeraj. Why does she seem stuck between a rock and a hard place? What’s the matter with Neeraj? Is it some deficiency, disability or a disease? It would need a silver bullet to get them together. What if the silver bullet already exists, unknown to them?

After the passing of her husband, Mrs. Mahajan takes care of four institutions, and lives a comfortable lifestyle with her two sons - Dr. Mohan and his wife, Maya; and Advocate Subhash Mahajan, his wife, Savitri, and their daughter, Rani. Savitri is unhappy as she wants a career for herself. She finally gets a chance to prove her skills in social services when she gets a job offer as Superintendent of a Women's Reformatory Home in distant Sangamwadi. Although Rani and Subhash as well as the rest of the family oppose her going, she has made up her mind.

Due to a plague epidemic in Pune, the British Government deputes C.W. Rand as Chairman of the Special Plague Committee, empowering him to do whatever is necessary to control the menace. Rand's heavy handed measures deeply offend local sensibilities, driving a group of angry youngsters to assassinate him and Lt. Charles Ayerst- the first outbreak of revolutionary activities in British India.