[2] It stars Dilhani Ekanayake, Sriyantha Mendis and Mahendra Perera in lead roles along with Jayalath Manoratne and Sanath Gunathilake.
[8] It is the first Sri Lankan film made without a single main character in Sinhala cinema history.
The village had previously been ransacked by the extremists who had killed men, women, and children and buried them in a mass grave.
As “Army Ajith” returns home with many presents for his newly wed wife, Komala, she is with another man in her husband's room.
Ukkuva, a child who witnessed his parents’ death and having lived as a refugee, he has been thrown off a truck as he was taken from one camp to the other.
Having no other option to feed Ukkuva, her mentally ill husband and blind father, she gets on the only bus driven by “Assa Peetara” and going past the village to serve as a sexual worker in the nearby town.
Heen Eki's only kin, his sibling brother, is brought in a coffin covered with the national flag and escorted by the army.
The alms-giving is paid for by Komala, from the money she earns as a sexual worker, and is given to the priest of the village, a prisoner in hiding.
Ungi's father, “Pansal Godelle Mudalali”, the owner of the village shop who later disowns it at the hands of NGO nona, also loses his Kerosene cart to her and becomes her employee.
At a later date, this same fate is experienced by “Assa Peetara”, the driver and owner of the only bus that connects the village with the town.
“Gam Bhara Attho” on overhearing of the nature of his daughter's profession from an argument between Komala and Assa Peetara, hangs himself on the rafters of the village kovil.
Ukkuva who comes running to tell Komala about her father's death, accidentally steps on a land mine and becomes a cripple.
As the police come to inspect the death scene, the prisoner hiding in priest's clothes runs into the jungle to escape.
Near the mass grave site, Army Ajith re-iterates the verses his father-in-law, “Gam Bhara Attho”, used to say.