The story of a youthful boy, Apu, and life in his little Indian town. His guardians are very destitute - his father Harihar, a essayist and writer, gave absent the family's natural product plantation to settle his brother's obligations. His sister Durga and an ancient close relative moreover still lives with them. His mother Sarbojaya bears the brunt of the family's circumstance. She rub by and offers her individual belonging to put nourishment on the table and has got to bear the insults of her neighbors as Durga is continuously taking natural product from their plantation. Things get more regrettable when Harihar vanishes for five months and Durga falls sick. Indeed after Harihar returns, the family is cleared out with few choices
