V Shantaram plays an idealistic, humane jailor. His idealism is not just wooly-headedness. Alert enough to grapple with a prisoner wanting to kill him, the jailor is also pointedly compassionate enough to reach for a bell and not a stick as a means to overpower his assailant. The jailor has a singularly innovative plan. Putting his own property, freedom and career at stake and taking his superior's scoffing in his stride, he takes six criminals out of the jail and reforms them into socially productive human beings. The jailor opts for six hard-bitten burly men serving sentences for ruthless murder. Egging them on with sympathy and with freedom coupled with responsibility, he takes them to an isolated, barren farm, which they try to convert into a lush Eden. But going from 'fiend' to 'refined' is not an easy journey.