Cook Babu quarrels with his beloved master and his wife and decides to leave them both. He meets Ann, a fashion designer who shares her home with three other women, and they employ him instead.

Travelling with four women who influenced him most in life - mother, wife, daughter and the first lover is fifty year old Jeevan. And time and seasons and places entwine hands with Jeevan on this journey. Just as he had desired.

The tragic real-life killing of student activist Abhimanyu M, using the mythological Abhimanyu (who entered the impenetrable Padmavyuha but couldn't escape) as a metaphor for the student's fight against fundamentalism and his subsequent assassination.