Present-day Shrirang, stuck in a loveless engagement with a city girl named , secretly tracks down Vithoba’s great-grandson—a quirky folk musician named Ajinkya . Through Ajinkya, Shrirang learns that Vithoba never stopped loving Bayā, and that love letters were exchanged for 40 years—hidden inside a bayācha ghuṭ (weaver bird’s nest) on the old banyan tree.