Acute circumstances have pushed Gauri, a young woman hailing from a lower middle class family in a very small suburban town in India, to hawking on trains. Initially she struggles hard for quite a few days to actually stand up and start hawking. Finally when she does, she earns the wrath of the other regular hawkers – all male – in the compartment. What follows is a saga of acute non-cooperation and ragging from her peers while Gauri struggles hard to adjust to this new way of life and make ends meet.