It is over 25 years now since the emergency was lifted. The story of Rajan,
an engineering college student killed by the police, of plantation worker
Rajan, his wife Devaki and Salim of the Calicut Medical College who
committed suicide to escape from more torture by the police, the story of
several of the young men who stood up for democracy is slowly fading out of
people's memory. Beneath the tragedy, there is a story of resistance in all
these.

The film, is an attempt to go back to those who resisted emergency and
recall the political climate that prevailed then and the factors that
motivated them to stand up and be counted among those who cherished freedom.

Based on interviews with the activists of the period, the film includes
discussions on the political context in which the emergency was imposed, the
crisis which Indira Gandhi sought to tide over and the manner in which a
number of young men, most of them being the cream in society, were subjected
to third degree torture.

Beginning with narratives by a cross section of prominent men in present
day Kerala -- P.Govinda Pillai, Sachithanandan, K.N.Ramachandran,
T.K.Ramachandran -- on the context in which the emergency was imposed, the
film then moves on to the spirit among the youth then and what led to the
resistance. This aspect is introduced by K.Venu, among those who influenced
a whole lot of young men in the seventies in Kerala, the film then slide
into the participants in the various ``actions'' against the emergency
recalling their own experience.

There are graphic descriptions about the torture inflicted on the suspects;
but then the story is not at all one of pathos but one where the victims
make it clear the they do not regret. The thread to the narrative is that of
Rajan, the student from REC, who was killed. Rajan's father, Eachara Warrier
too recalls his experience. The then Principal of REC Calicut, Prof.
Bahauddin too narrated his own travails in search of his boys who were taken
to the torture camps.

There are then, frames where Karunakaran, who was the Home Minister then
who justifies the emergency and also of P.K.Vasudevan Nair, CPI leader who
still thinks the emergency was not all that horrendous in Kerala because the
CPI's Achuta Menon was the Chief Minister.

In order to avoid monotony, visuals of the old building where the torture
camps were located, the colleges from where there was resistance have been
inserted.