These are tough times and tough times won't pass easily. Survival was the only thing that the pariah people of Puratthakkal valley cared about; it was the most brutal drought of that time and the worst was not over yet. When a ravenous tiger killed one of his bullocks Chinappa and his family's survival were at stake. He cowardly left his family amidst the war and drought a mistake that cost his family and freedom. Slave Hunters sold him to work in the notorious mines of Kalapani. The island was hell for slaves; over the top the cruel owner of the Nicobar Mining Company Jamrood Ellahi Baroodwala was a sadistic evil.