Chaitanya Tamhane's extraordinary debut feature is both a compelling courtroom drama and a powerful critique of India's regressive judicial system and stifling social traditions. Narayan Kamble is an ageing folk singer living in Mumbai who has been marked by the authorities as a dissident. His latest charge is for inciting the suicide of a sewage worker through the allegedly seditious lyrics in his songs. The bizarre case comes to the attention of Vinay Vora, a young, well-heeled lawyer, who takes up Narayan’s fight.