After a sewage worker's dead body is found inside a manhole in Mumbai, an aging folk singer is tried on charges of abetment of suicide for performing an inflammatory song that might have incited a sewage worker to commit the act in the Venice Film Festival winner Court. As the trial unfolds, the personal lives of the lawyers and the judge involved in the case are observed while the context of the trial itself serves as a way to explore a number of pressing sociopolitical issues facing Indian society today.
