Description:
Rajalakshmi's simple ambition to support her widowed mother and struggling family is thwarted by malicious gossip, for which the solution is to marry her childhood friend Suthan. As the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka heats up, Suthan faces the dilemma of whether to follow his father's political path of constitutional reform and nonviolence or to join the growing separatist movement. He goes into exile in India, and Rajalakshmi is faced with the choice whether to follow him.