 Circa 1920 during the Indian British rule, Dr. Aziz H. Ahmed was born and brought up in India. He is proficient in English, and dresses like them. He meets an old lady, Mrs. Moore, at a Mosque, and thereafter he is asked to accompany her and her companion, Adela Quested, for sight-seeing around some caves. Thereafter the organized life of Aziz is turned upside down when Adela accuses him of molesting her in a cave. Aziz is arrested and brought before the courts, and it is here that he will learn that the entire British administration is against him, and would like to see him found guilty, and punished severely so as to teach all native Indians what it means to molest a British citizen. Aziz is all set to witness the "fairness" of the British system, which is "guilty until proved innocent".