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Synopsis

Kalyani alias Kallu (Deva Nandha) is a devotee of god Ayyappan, and is enthusiastic to visit the Sabarimala temple. As per the religious beliefs, Kallu has a small window of two years to visit the temple as she is 8 years old. Her grandmother narrates legends of Lord Ayyappan to her, which she loves a lot. Her father Ajayan (Saiju Kurup) has mortgaged their house, and it is in the verge of being seized by bank.

Further, he has also borrowed a pretty big sum from a local usurer Ambadi (Sreejith Ravi), both of these loans he is incapable to repay. The bank has issued a seizure notice which Ajayan hides from his family. Ajayan promises Kallu to take her to Sabarimala and both do the initial rituals for the pilgrimage which is supposed to happen a few weeks from thereon. Ambadi publicly beats up Ajayan which is witnessed by Kallu, and the humiliated Ajayan subsequently commits suicide out of disgrace. The house being seized by the bank, Kallu's grandmother moves in with Ajayan's sister, and Kallu and her mother moves in with Ajayan's friend Unni (Ramesh Pisharody). Kallu becomes frustrated with the fact that she is unable to go to Sabarimala, and yells at her good friend and classmate Piyush (Sreepath), Unni's son. Piyush finds that it is impossible to dissuade Kallu from pursuing her journey to Sabarimala, and decides to accompany her. Both 8-year old kids take a bus to Pamba, and en route they meet Mahi (Sampath Ram), a goon who is also a pedophile/kidnapper, who seems to be heading to Sabarimala. Piyush senses that something is off and tries to persuade Kallu to cancel the journey, but fails. Meanwhile the kids' parents inform the police about the missing children.

Later, a man named Ayyappan (Unni Mukundan) boards the bus, who also seems to be heading to Sabarimala, and gets acquainted with the kids. Mahi introduces himself as the kids' guardian to Ayyappan, which Ayyappan later finds out to be false and suspects that he has some malicious intentions. After hearing their story, Ayyappan promises the kids that he will accompany them to Sabarimala. Ayyappan intimidates Mahi and an infuriated Mahi is determined to incapacitate Ayyappan and kidnap the girl. On reaching Pamba, from where they have to walk by foot to reach the shrine, the trio discovers that the Police have restricted entry for the remainder of the day, as a measure to control the crowd, and they will not be able to visit the temple. But an adamant Kallu leaves Ayyappan with no choice except to take a route through the forest. Mahi's accomplice who has been following them informs Mahi about their movements, and he sends all of his henchmen to beat up Ayyappan and kidnap the girl. During the journey, Ayyappan is alerted, he successfully overpowers Mahi and his people, and the trio walks away. While during the fight, Kallu is shown to be hallucinating about Ayyappan being the God of the same name, and later reveals to Ayyappan that she have seen him in her dreams, and shows him the drawings she made about them, which shows a man who looks like Ayyappan. The following day, the kids enter the shrine guided by Ayyappan and pray to the idol. Meanwhile, Ayyappan disappears in the crowd.

Later, the police hands the kids over to Unni and they are taken home. It is then revealed that Ayyappan is a policeman CPO D. Ayyappadas. He was alerted of the missing children and knowingly boarded the bus after having seen Kallu at the bus window. Later by hearing out their stories, he decided to make their wish come true of visiting Sabarimala temple. Circumstances that followed made the kids believe that he was the God Ayyappan. The police meanwhile apprehended Mahi and his men, who happened to be on criminal records.