 Vishwam , an educated , unemployed youth , is an aspiring writer and had some of his short stories published in the newspapers earlier . He dreams of having his novel , titled Nirvriti ( Ecstasy ) , published in the newspaper . He meets one of the newspaper editors ( Vaikom Chandrasekharan Nair ) , who agrees to read his novel but declines to publish it as Vishwam does not have many writings to his credit . Sita is offered a job as a sales girl but cannot accept it because she is unable to pay the required security deposit of ₹ 1 @,@ 000 . With several unsuccessful attempts to get a job , the increasing financial pressure forces them to shift to a slum . With an old lady named Janaki ( Adoor Bhavani ) and a prostitute named Kalyani ( K. P. A. C. Lalitha ) as their neighbours , things do not work as desired for the couple and they end up selling Sita 's jewellery . 
