On returning home long after a shopping trip, she is way laid and gang raped.

Mobi later became a scape goat for their marital discords and soon fled for the Sanakeithel with a flicker of hope for survival.

At Sanakeithel, he is picked up by Ebai, a psychopathic small time mafia don who introduces him to the rest of his gang of petty thieves.

A chance encounter in which he hears his uncle trying to talk to the mad woman makes him realises that she is his mother.

[8] The citation for the National Award reads, "For the sympathetic portrayal of a human relationship in the context of a social tragedy".