Late in the evening, on the street of Ujjayini Samsthanaka, the ignorant, rude and cowardly brother-in-law of King Palaki pursues the beautiful heterosexual beauty Vasantasenu. Taking advantage of the darkness, Vasantasena escapes from him through an unlocked gate into the courtyard of one of the houses. By chance, it turned out that this is the house of the noble Brahmin Charudatta, in whom Vasantasena fell in love, having met shortly before in the temple of the god Kama. Because of his generosity and generosity, Charudatta became poor, and Vasantasena, wanting to help him, leaves him with his treasures, which Samstkhanaka allegedly encroaches on, to keep him.
The next day, Vasantasena confesses to his maid Madanika in love for Charudatta. During their conversation, the former masseur Charudatta bursts into the house, who became a player after the ruin of his master. The owner of the gambling house is chasing after him, to whom the masseur owes ten gold. Vasantasena pays this debt for him, and the grateful massage therapist decides to quit the game and go to Buddhist monks.
Meanwhile, Charudatta instructs her friend Brahman Maitreya to keep the casket with Vasantasena jewels. But Maitreya falls asleep at night, and the thief of Sharvilak, by all the rules of thieves' art, having made a dig under the house, steals the casket. Charudatta, in despair, that he had deceived the trust of Vasantasena, whom she also fell in love with, and then the wife of Charudatta Dhuta gives him her pearl necklace to pay off the hetero. No matter how embarrassed Charudatta, he is forced to take a necklace and sends Maitreya with him to the house of Vasantasena. But even before him, Sharvilaka comes there and brings a stolen jewelry box to buy his beloved, the maid Madanik, from Vasantasena. Vasantasena releases Madanika without any ransom, and when Sharvilaka learns from her that, without knowing it, he robbed the noble Charudatta, then, repenting, abandons his craft, leaves the box at the getter, and joins the conspirators, unhappy with the tyrannical rule of Tsar Palaki .
Following Sharvilaka, Maitreya appears in the house of Vasantasena and replaces the missing jewels with the pearl necklace of Dhuta. The moved Vasantasena hurries to Charudatta and, referring to the fact that she lost the necklace in the dice, again hands him the jewelry box. Under the pretext of bad weather, she remains in the house of Charudatta for the night, and in the morning returns her necklace to Dhuta. She refuses to accept him, and then Vasantasena pours his jewelry into the clay wagon of his son Charudatta - his only unpretentious toy.
Soon there are new misunderstandings. Leaving on a date with Charudatta in a city park, Vasantasena mistakenly gets into the Samsthanaki wagon; in her own wagon is the nephew of King Palaki Aryak, who escaped from the prison where Palaka imprisoned him. Due to such confusion, Charudatta meets Aryaka instead of Vasantasena and frees him from the shackles, and Samsthanaka in his wagon discovers Vasantasena and again annoys her with his harassment. Contemptuously rejected by Vasantantasa, Samsthanaka strangles her and, considering it dead, hides it under an armful of leaves. However, a masseur passing by, who became a Buddhist monk, finds Vasantasena, brings him to his senses and hides with her for a while.
Between them, Samsthanaka accuses Charudatta of killing Vasantasena in court. A coincidence is also against him: the mother of Vasantasena reports that her daughter went on a date with him, and Maitreya, a friend of Charudatta, is looking for jewelry belonging to the getter. And although no one believes in Charudatta's guilt, the cowardly judges at the request of King Palaki sentenced him to be imprisoned. However, when the executioners are ready to start the execution, Vasantasena comes alive and tells what really happened. Following her, Sharvilaka appears and announces that Palaka was killed, and the noble Aryaka was erected on the throne. Aryaka appoints Charudatta to a high state post and allows Vasantasena to become his second wife. Samstkhanak was brought to the runaway, but the magnanimous Charudatta releases him and gives thanks to fate, which, “although it plays with people indiscriminately,” ultimately rewards virtue and piety.
