On Deepavali day, an alcoholic threatens to kill himself in public by consuming pesticide. Ayyanarpatti is titillated, his family unimpressed. Beginning with the month of Aipasi, Veena Muthuraman tells a story set in each month of the Tamil calendar. As a year unfolds, we get to know Ayyanarpatti: to the world, a small village; for the villagers, the centre of the world