Set in a fishing village named Kalpitiya, this movie explores tradition and exploitation because of capitalism in this small village.
Loosely based on Franz Kafka's novella Metamorphosis 'Swaroopa' narrates the story of Gregory Samson and his family of father, mother, sister assisted by a maid within the social transformations taking place in late colonial and early postcolonial Sri Lanka.
The calm, dull marriage of a young woman and her much older husband is disturbed when the man's younger brother arrives at their home.