This is debate between two friends; a jailer and an author of international repute on capital punishment. The author is an abolitionist whereas the jailer believes that a criminal terrorist must be hanged. The terrorist is sentenced to death and the author loses hopes of saving him. So now he decides to interview him in order to understand the mental condition of the murderer who is about to be hanged for murdering an innocent person. He wants to know how he feels, whether he repents, whether he is scared. The interview is organized by his jailer friend but the author gets into a nightmare like situation from which he is facing death himself.