It is winter in a prestigious all boys' boarding school, where children continue to practice age-old rituals and codes bound by years of hierarchy of the popular norm       Shay is picked at constantly, the main perpetrators being Arjun, the tall athletic sports captain and his best friend Baadal       Shay and Prithi, the spunky daughter of the new Junior School Principal are cast as Bassanio and Portia in the Founders Day production of Merchant of Venice       Murali, the charismatic drama teacher unknowingly adds salt to Baadal's wounds by casting him as Shay's understudy       Indignant, Baadal vows to get Shay's part at any cost and turns to his buddy Arjun for help       Events take a sinister turn when Shay walks in on Arjun, Baadal and their cronies on a debauched night