Ashes and Sand

Frau Sixta (Franziska Kinz) lives in the Austrian alps, near to the italian border and is head of a post station. After her man died she also has to take care of the farm. One day a stranger arrives with the stagecoach. Markus (Gustav Fröhlich) is a retired major, who wants to start a new life in Italy. Frau Sixta persuades him to stay and manage the farm and they begin having an affair. After some time, Frau Sixtas daughter Otti (Ilse Werner) comes home from boarding school and soon she and Markus fell in love with each other. Heavy-heartedly Frau Sixta gets Markus and Otti in a coach and let them leave for Italy.

After the war ,a doctor and his ex-fiancee's daughter pick up the pieces.

The film tells the story of a village woman named as Devi, her battle against fate and society, certain incidents in her life turned her daily job to burn the corpses, but according to the Hindu traditions in Kerala, no women is allowed to burn corpses but she is an exception, The story tells how she took up that job and how she is fighting back to raise her only child. Even though people in Kerala worship goddesses, In real life woman are treated badly and has been restricted from may practices. As the the film title is going with the worshipping of Hindu goddess 'chudala badrakali' ( She is one of the fierce forms of the Great Goddess Devi ), the title footages has been shot originally at the worshipping ritual of Goddess Bhadrakali happened in Iyvormadom (crematorium) in Palakkad district Kerala, in the ritual even no woman are allowed to play the role of bhadrakali even though ritual is about worshipping of a female goddess. They are played only by male artists disguised in a goddess attire.