Safar is a film about a sixteen year old girl, Gouri, who comes from a small village in the South of India. Sold by her parents to God as a part of the Devadasi tradition and forced into prostitution at a young age, the film begins when Gouri decides to change the course of her life. She leaves the seedy interiors of her friend Lakshmi's home to begin work as a maid with Dhan, an old lady who has just lost her husband. But just as she seems to find her feet, her past rears its ugly head again.