Appa Mestry, a veteran Communist who lives in the nostalgia of "those great days", is unable to believe that EMS has died.

He remembers contemptuously the day when the first EMS ministry was dismissed by the central government as a result of unjust agitation by the religious lobbies of Kerala.

Appa Mestry's next generation, his son-in-law and his friend Bahuleyan, who have discarded their extremist leftist ideology, are illustrated as frauds.

They drive their car to get alcohol, while the whole of Kerala grieves the death of EMS by observing harthal.

During the television coverage of the funeral procession, Appa's grandson sits watching a cricket match, completely oblivious to EMS's legacy.