widower jeevanlal lives with his 5-year-old daughter in a small house. one day he meets with an accident and is unable to return home as he is admitted to the hospital. meanwhile, due to heavy rains, an ill guddu starts searching for her dad at night, gets giddy due to hunger and falls on the road. jeevanlal returns home and sees she has the fever. then jeevanlal gets arrested for assaulting a pharmacist as he is unable to afford medicines suggested by the doctor to treat his ill daughter, guddu. subsequently, jeevanlal gets jailed, his repeated and vain attempts to escape from prison to meet his daughter only end up increasing his sentence, leaving guddu to fend on her own. 8 years pass by. guddu went to a school as while she was searching for her dad, a marathi woman saw her and started to allow guddu grow up in her house.