text: Fifteen-year-old Raman  lives alone with his older sister Bhagyam, their parents having died several years prior. The town bully Prabhakaran Pillai  rapes Raman's sister who later commits suicide. Raman kills Pillai in anger and escapes from murder charges by hiding from the police with the help of a teashop owner  and a prostitute  until he faces Pillai's children