The story follows Amudha, a nine-year-old girl in Chennai who discovers she is adopted. Her quest to find her biological mother, Shyama, leads her and her adoptive family into the heart of the Sri Lankan Civil War.
Nandita Das appears briefly but haunts every frame. Shyama is a rebel fighter who abandoned her baby to save her from war. She is not a villain or a saint—she is a woman hollowed by ideology and loss. The film refuses to romanticize militancy; when she meets Amudha, she cannot embrace her. She can only offer a kiss on the cheek—a gesture of surrender, not reunion. Kannathil Muthamittal