A few years from now, an Indian Metropolis...decaying, lawless, tragically corrupting....A typical party ends in untypical violence. Aamir just 21...is awkwardly sensitive and inarticulate. Neeta, the poised distant girl whom Aamir loves with mad desperation, is gang raped. She is a survivor. Disillusioned and practical, she rules out revenge. Neeta has now grown beyond Aamir. Aamir, driven by impotent rage, hesitantly approaches the law. Only to learn that the rapists are the ruling mafia clan whom neither he nor the police can touch.

Aamir is violently uprooted from his safe, if lonely, upper class home. Thus begins the chaotic journey that takes him into the precarious outer world.

Here, his only friend, a street urchin offers him mute sympathy until P.K. an embittered cop - cynical witness to the first outrage is goaded by his aenesthetized conscience to search out Aamir. An adolescent seeking manhood and the older man seeking his lost innocence come together...