Angela Kathamuthu, a civil advocate interviewing inmates at the Madras Central Prison for a documentary on the death penalty meets Virumaandi and Kothaala Thevar, who are sentenced to death and life respectively for their roles in perpetrating the massacre of 24 people during a brutal clash between feuding villages. However, as she listens to their conflicting accounts of the same story, Angela realizes Virumaandi is being punished for a crime he did not commit.

Un militant enquêtant sur la peine de mort interroge Kothaala et Virumaandi en prison. En écoutant leurs versions de la même histoire, elle se rend compte que Virumaandi est puni pour un crime qu'il n'a pas commis.