
The protagonist is trapped within himself and is unable to comprehend the changes taking place around him.

A magician who entertains children temporarily transforms his young spectators of a village into animals. However, a boy transformed into a dog misses the moment to break the spell and has to wait for the magician to return.

In a seashore village, Esthappan's miraculous figure unfolds through the contradictory narrations of people.

Besides a long glittering river, some men raise a pole. A tent balloons up. Where there was wide sand and the sound of water lapping, there is now a truck, chairs, hoops, stools, ropes, goats, a lioness, a pair of fat girls, some ...

The film starts in the early 1950s showing Sridharan, the protagonist, as a very popular communist leader and trade union activist. He is forced to go underground after his name was associated with the murder of the owner of a til...