Chinnasamy is a dhobi, the hero of the story, lives in a village and also does funerals.But he wants to change his long time laundry work and is willing to do dairy business. In the meantime his sister loves an upper caste boy which becomes an issue and he refuses to do the funeral of a village bigwig, but villagers force and threaten him. Finally he approaches the court and gets a favourable judgement.