Budhai (Raghubir Yadav) is a Dom, the man who burns the dead bodies that are brought to the cemetery. He and his daughter, Bijuria, see food and get new clothes only when there is a death in the vicinity. This irony of the dead feeding the living, effects the little girl so much, that she starts dancing whenever she sees a dead body.
A dead body means food and clothes. This dancing of hers remains even as she grows up and gets married to a truck driver. Once, her husband goes away for a week and does not return. She can only wait in silence.
Then one fine day, she hears some people chanting? Ram naam satya hai?, the death chant, and as is her wont, starts dancing. It is only when she catches a glimpse of the face of the corpse does she realize that it is none other than her husband. Dancing and sobbing in grief she falls on the corpse.