Many young people who would love to leave their hometowns cannot do so because they need a stable job before older Italians will rent them a flat, letalone give them a mortgage.
The scenes in which Charu, the wife (Madhabi Mukherjee), and Amal, the cousin (Soumitra Chatterjee), sublimate their passion through literature have a comic-romantic charm: their proper sensibilities prevent them from ever admitting their feelings, letalone consummating them physically.