Kshitij is a story of 12 year old girls struggle to continue her education in the face of severe adversity. Poverty forces her family to leave their village and go to a neighboring town to do back breaking labor in sugarcane fields.
The girl, Vacchi, continues to quietly find time to study amidst days filled with hard toil, much to the irritation of her father a simple farmer who has very little sympathy of understanding for her aspiration.
Vacchi faces all these obstacles with a quiet positivity that finds the way to solve all these problems as they occur. Her efforts however, bring her closer and closer to a confrontation with her father.