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The film starts with John Baby (Kunchacko Boban) getting into a car accident. After being discharged, he is told to temporarily wear a protective face mask until his nose is stable. As he resumes his life as a Munsiff-Magistrate, strange things start to happen as he hallucinates, probably from the accident. On the other hand, his friend Shalini (Divya Prabha), a child psychologist, approaches him with a case of one her patients. Nitin, an eight year old schoolboy, shares with his class a story of murder. This strikes his interest and he, along with Shalini visits Sharmila (Nayanthara) the boy's mother in order to talk to the boy. First hostile, she lets them as he says that the case should have been reported to the Police. The boy appears energetic and normal like any other child. Baby decides to search the place mentioned in the boy's story with the help of the Police and finds a human skull under a pond.