KP.Madhavan Nair, the man, poet and teacher, is thus unraveled through his unbridled interactions with the women around him on whom he seems to have been able to have cast a spell of sorts. They end up being no more than winged termites that lose their wings after their mating, and live miserable lives lost in the haunting memories of a man whom they had fallen dismally in love with.
The poet does remind us that creativity isn't an easy thing to be maintained, and perhaps alarmed and overwhelmed by the tremendous potentials that he could foresee in his wife Saraswathi Amma (Jayapriya) as a writer, tries to smother her vision as subtly as he possibly can. Envy does overpower him, but he is a simple man at heart, who very soon realizes his folly and who falls sobbing at his wife's feet to seek forgiveness. The women who fall prey to Nair's charms have only one thing in common - their unparalleled love for the man. Saraswathi Amma very soon settles down to a life where she hopes to hunt out happiness forfeiting everything else, and drips the very last drop of her fountain pen ink onto the stream. She is willing to give up everything including her very self for a man who would soon walk away from her into the darkness, never to return again.
It's another land and another time altogether where Nair meets Ammini (Padmapriya) for whom he says he has brought black glass bangles. He hands out a few chunks of rock sugar and peanut candies instead to her after fishing around his pockets for a while. Ammini finds his sheepish grin endearing, and off she goes on a ride with him on his bicycle. He doesn't think twice before agreeing to marry her and leaves fixing a date, only to arrive at the place years later.
Nair does marry Thankamony (Anumol) though, the girl who could bring huge freshwater trouts to splash around on her mud walls with her melodious voice. The folk singer has a way with nature, as she has with the poet, and her song sets peacocks dancing in all their splendor, while water lilies peep out from under the still night waters, all eager to bloom. Grabbing her by the arm, Nair leads her out into a world where she believes freedom exists, but upon his desertion finds the idyllic world that she had dreamed of being replaced by one that is beset with bitterness and gloom.