Lakshmi Amma, an elderly lady who may be in her late 60s runs a small shop that sell trinkets and things to tourists. Lakshmi had a big happy family of 6 children. Five sons and a daugther. They had a small boat which her husband and son used for fishing. After the death of her husband four years ago the family started to fall apart. The elder son became alcoholic, the youngest son got into a debt trap and of boat and the rest distanced themselves from him and the mother. Lashmi Amma started taking care of the firstborn of her debt ridden youngest son, a little girl called Nirmala. The son had to leave Dhanushkodi to earn money and had three more daughters in the quest to father a son. Nirmala who has always been attached to her grandmother was left back here in Dhanushkodi, so that she can go to school, and her father didn’t have enough money to pay for it.