Solaiyamma

Solaiyamma is a motherless woman who is looked after by her father She has been promised in marriage with her relative Balraj and they are in love Vairavan is a heartless muscular man who spreads terror among the villagers and rapes the village girls One night Vairavan enters Solaiyammas house and tries to rape Solaiyamma but she stands against him and Vairavan runs away The entire village thinks that she has been raped including her relatives and then her father commits suicide Thereafter she is rejected by the village Vairavan tortures her psychologically to spend a night with him What transpires later forms the crux of the story