Samuel, a government employee and a widower who has converted to Christianity, brings up his three daughters alone. He has rosy dreams for his daughter Lisamma. The eldest daughter is married off to what turns out to be a good for nothing son-in-law. The second daughter, burdened with family chores, discontinues her studies. Samuel pins his hopes on his third daughter, Lissamma, and dreams of grooming her to be a doctor. But she is caught in a sex racket. Lal Jose knits together a poignant story depicting the travails of an ordinary man caught in a vortex, who despite social stigma and mental trauma, tries to put together the bits and pieces of his life and move on.