Madhavan (Sreenivasan (actor)) 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 émigré, to fulfil the residents' need for a Gorkha security guard. He befriends with Nirmala (Seema (actress)),a teacher whose husband Balachandran (Mammootty) is working in Dubai. While, a police officer (Thilakan) and his daughter Maya (Karthika (actress)) move into the neighbourhood, bringing back memories from the past for Sethu.