The poet published an open letter in response to this, news and accused her of selfishness, of cruelty towards him, and her rejection of his love all those years ago. Nargis never replied to these accusations. This play imagines a seventy-year-old Nargis, listening to the radio and hearing about the poet's death. Overwhelmed at this news, she starts rereading that old letter and reminiscing about the past. She tries to compose what she would have written had she answered the poet's letter when it was sent forty years ago. The play shows an older Nargis and the poet sitting on two desks on two corners of the downstage. The poet is reading his own letter, and Nargis is trying to write her response. There is also a younger Nargis on stage who represents the past. Other characters are used as reflections of the poet's and Nargis's state of mind and often as the younger Nargis's reflection.