P.T. Kunju Muhammad

Story begins when old patriarch Moosa Meleri arrives in a quiet Kerala village with his adopted son Abu and daughter-in-law Amina. He has lost all his money in litigation. Despite their hardships they are happy until their rich landlord covets Amina. Heartbroken, Amina is forced to divorce Abu and become the landlord's second wife. Twenty years later Amina is alone while her father still indulges in litigations, her son leads a dissolute life and her daughter elopes with the chauffeur.

Mansoor, a young filmmaker, belongs to a progressive Muslim family and is a left-wing liberal. However, he faces many challenges when a mother-daughter duo starts staying in his home.

The film talks the issue of Indian citizens who left the country before independence in search of job, mostly to Arabia, and happened to reach Pakistan, and then when returned to the homeland, happened to be holding a Pakistani passport, and now is forced by the Indian authorities to leave the nation to Pakistan, which even the Pakistani authorities won't allow.

Freedom fighter and politician Mohammed Abdul Rahiman leads the revolution in Kerala.

An idealistic man toils away in the Arabian Gulf while his family is in India. When he returns home poorer than when he left, dissatisfaction begins to fester in the family.