The early 1960s also known as the golden age of Indian cinema. Satyan Kumar reigning screen god moves from Mumbai to the Madras film industry. There he meets Gopalan a middling studio writer. An inexplicable connection forms between the two men across the chasms of class and language. But just as an enduring bond springs up tragedy intervenes. Gopalans son mysteriously dies and his wifes dementia acquires homicidal overtones. Both men flounder as they try to understand their roles in these seemi