A young nurse ultimately wants to become a nun. She arrives in a village and falls in love with a man. But the man's father makes all the arrangements for his marriage without telling him.
Rasayya is a wealthy but cowardly man, who is being controlled by his uncle, Ratnavelu. An educated woman falls in love with Rasayya and makes him a changed man. Will Rasayya fight against Ratnavelu?
Gowri, a woman in search of her lover Suresh, joins a group of struggling roadside singers. Friendship grows between them as they achieve success, but things change when Suresh returns.
Paramasivan has two sons : Subramani and Ganesan. Ganesan, the eldest, gets married with Segamalam. In the meantime, Subramani and Segamalam's sister Parimala fall in love with each other, even if they are from different villages. Devaraj, the owner of a gambling club, wants to get married with Parimala but she refuses and ridicules him. So Devaraj decides to take revenge. Ganesan is a gambler and he even landed his family's bungalow to Devaraj. Later, Devaraj tries to sell it but Subramani settles the amount at time. Devaraj wants to absolutely split the lovers. What transpires later forms the crux of the story.
