Virumaandi

An ode to humanity

A morally complex prison drama that interrogates the death penalty and the nature of truth through conflicting testimonies of a brutal massacre.

Angela, a civil advocate interviewing inmates at the Madras Central Prison for a documentary on the death penalty meets Virumaandi and Kothaala, who are sentenced to death and life respectively for their roles in perpetrating the massacre of 24 people during a brutal clash between feuding villages. As tensions mount within the prison walls, she listens to their conflicting accounts of the same story.