OTTAYAAL PAATHA (The Narrow Path) is about a father and son who live in the slum. The movie starts one morning and ends by day break the next. The father Vikraman was a cleaner in the city corporation, now retired. His legs are partly paralysed from uncontrolled diabetes and he’s mostly restricted to his bed and a wheel chair.
The son Akhil is an unemployed software engineer. The father and son are almost always fighting each other. Akhil has managed to find himself a job in Bangalore and plans to go away with his girlfriend Nina the next morning. But he hasn’t breathed a word to his dad, simply because he doesn’t have the nerve. Although Nina keeps goading him to speak to the old man, he keeps putting it off. Later in the day Vikraman accuses Akhil of trying to kill him. This sets of a fight that gets out of hand and leads to unexpected events.