 Madhavan (Sreenivasen) is trying to get a job for his unemployed friend Sethu (Mohanlal). When a spate of robberies takes place in a middle-class neighbourhood, Madhavan has Sethu pose as Raam Singh, a Nepali emigre, to fulfill the residents  need for a Gorkha security guard. A police officer (Thilakan) and his daughter (Seema) move into the neighbourhood, bringing back memories from the past for Sethu.