Mumbai, 1982. The famous mill workers' strike is at its peak as the mill owners try to surreptitiously close down the mills and build the commercially more viable malls and high rises in their place.
The film looks at the tumult in the industrial belt of Mumbai through the gritty and gruelling experiences of the Dhuri family that is essentially a microcosm of the entire chawl where life is a daily struggle against hunger and poverty, yet hope and family ties never perish.