Set in the second decade of the 20th century, this is a story of cinema entering villages of Kerala. The protagonist Diwakaran gets attracted to the new machine, bioscope, at an exhibition by Frenchman DuPont, who does bioscope shows on the coasts of Tamil Nadu.

Set in the rural locales of Malabar, ‘Pedithondan’ is the story of a young man Rajeev who fears fire and the traditional rituals like Theyyam.