a real estate contractor, the second one moves around in political circles and the youngest, Raghu runs a medical shop. His cousins and uncle are extremely greedy. When Haridas starts his practice at the local dilapidated clinic run by his uncle, he realises that he is up against a morally corrupt system, where the facilities are poor, and also that he does not have a say in its functioning. The other doctor at the clinic, Dr. Rajan Thomas cautions him against treating pregnant women, as it's his domain. They are against his honest practice and were disappointed when he denied prescribing unnecessary medicines to the poor because it did not help his brother's pharmacy business. But Haridas is very adamant in not yielding to their dishonesty and malpractices. Even though Bhanu looks at Haridas with stars in her eyes, he dismisses her all the time. The past comes to haunt Haridas when he goes to a patient at her home – a derelict Namboothiri illam. The patient is bedridden, her husband Ilethu is a temple priest and they have a daughter Sreedevi. It is when Illethu mentions their departed son Unnikrishnan, who was a promising medical student, who had died due to a sudden heart attack in the playground at his medical college, Haridas gets a jolt. Haridas mentions that Unni was a junior of his. That night he injects pethidine to ease his pain and the guilt slowly starts to eat inside him. It slowly grows into an addiction. Haridas grows attached to the family, often helping them. He advises Sreedevi to become a doctor, not a nurse. Meanwhile, at his uncle's home, he faces much trouble and shifts his home near the Namboothiri illam, using it as a clinic as well. Patients throng to his home and the bond between Sreedevi and Haridas becomes strong. When Bhanu arrives, she mistakes their friendship for something else and leaves the clinic in anger. But Haridas calms her down and tells her that it is his responsibility to take care of that family, as there is something in his past which she wouldn't understand. She calms down and then Haridas then drops her at her home, in front of her uncle and brothers. Meanwhile, his addiction grows and finally when his mentor, the wise old professor arrives and advises him, it is only then he stops injecting it. He discards the