Angela Kathamuthu, a civil advocate interviewing inmates on the Madras Central Jail for a documentary on the dying penalty meets Virumaandi and Kothaala Thevar, who're sentenced to dying and life respectively for his or her roles in perpetrating the bloodbath of 24 folks throughout a brutal conflict between feuding villages. Nonetheless, as she listens to their conflicting accounts of the identical story, Angela realizes Virumaandi is being punished for against the law he didn't commit.