Circa 1004 CE. Chozha Kingdom. The great Raja Raja Chozhan has just started his endeavour to build the greatest temple ever to be built. Twelve year old Paavai, born in a border village, has been chosen to go to Thanjavur to train under a female 'athikaarichi'. A thousand years later... In the present day Chennai, Sarayu tries to clear her Uncle Daniel, an artifact authenticator in Australia, of the charges of idol fraud. What is the mystery that spans a thousand years? And who lit the fire? A historical fiction meets a modern-day mystery.