The film focuses on Mappila bullock cart driver Khader (Mammootty), a retired corporal and World War 1 veteran, and Unni Krishnan (Suresh Gopi), a hardline nationalist revolutionary from a family of upper-caste Hindu Nair landlords. Both men join the brigade of Variyan Kunnathu Kunjahammed Haji (T. G. Ravi), one of the prominent leaders of the 1921 Malabar rebellion.