Satyanathen (Jayaram) is a teacher at Vivekodayam school, Thrissur. His wife Priya (Gopika) is a bank employee and they have a fourteen-year-old son Bhaskaran. Satyanathan is an alcoholic. After school hours, he can be seen with his friends in the local bar or at thekkinkad maithanam where they play cards. He is dissatisfied with his life and wife.