War torn city where a boy peeps into sleeping woman

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.

The lives of several people in Kochi’s criminal underworld intertwine as land mafia enforcer Jyothilal pursues actress Suryaprabha, while laborer Swarnavel faces marital strife and widow Viji seeks vengeance, all bound by fate’s cruel coincidences.