The show revolves around a young child named Gangaa, who becomes a widow on the same day as her marriage when her husband and her father, with whom she was very close, are killed in a riot.The show follows her struggle for her right to live happily, opposing the restrictions placed upon widows by society despite being at an age at which she did not know the meaning of marriage. She is adopted by lawyer Niranjan Chaturvedi and his wife Madhvi, who soon treat her like their own daughter and like their two other children Pulkit and Sagar, despite the objection of Niranjan's mother, Ammaji. Gangaa is raised by Ammaji who treated her like a widowed servant although she is also an ophan.