Mulla, a 14-year-old boy from
Lakshadweep, travels to
Mumbai in search of his
Moothon (elder brother), Akbar, who left the island for Mumbai many years ago. Mulla lives in the islands under the care of Moosa, a fisherman. He is seen to be wearing baggy clothes and does not go to school, due to bullying. The bullies make him wear lipstick and a veil, making him hate feminine clothes. He laments his brother and tries to search for him. Moosa tells him to drop the issue, stop imitating his brother's mannerisms, and tells him that he cannot become Moothon by wearing his clothes. He suspects that Moothon left due to an affair with Aamina and tries to get her number. Moosa responds that the only Aamina he knows is a fish. However, he manages to get her number. One day, while getting bullied, his friends help him strike back. However, Mulla gets slapped by Moosa for this, and he leaves the island by taking a boat under the cover of darkness and is hit by a large wave in the ocean, capsizing the boat. He hallucinates a mermaid rescuing him, but in fact, he gets rescued by a ship. The ship authorities send him to a police station, and there is a communication barrier as he does not know Hindi. From there, he is sent to a government-funded orphanage. He is hesitant in taking a bath together with the boys, and from there, he befriends Raju. The warden tries to molest him, but he manages to escape from him due to Raju's intervention. Raju tells about his mother, Rosy, and where he could find her. Mulla escapes from there in search of Rosy. Mulla finds her to be a prostitute, who helps him. She provides him shelter and introduces him to a tea seller, who gives him a livelihood selling tea. The neighborhood boys bully him and steal his money, which he had been saving for calling Aamina. While resting on the street after work, he gets kidnapped by Bhai, a local goon involved in
child trafficking and drug dealing. He tries to escape, but is caught by the
street boys working for Bhai. Bhai plans on selling him, and Bhai's sidekick, Salim, sets up a deal. Bhai himself is from the islands and understands Malayalam. One day, Bhai orders him to deliver a package. However, on seeing a cop, he flees, dropping the package with smartphones dropping out. Mulla comes back to Bhai's base and tries to steal cash to take his phone. Seeing this, Bhai is enraged and slaps him. He reveals that he was trying to find his
moothon Akbar and that he is, in fact, his younger sister, Mulla. Bhai is shocked on hearing the revelation, and understands that Mulla is, in fact his younger sister, although Bhai does not reveal this to her. Bhai warns her to stay inside until he comes back. One of the boys from the street enters the house looking for her, as while she was bathing, he found out that she is a girl. In a flashback, Bhai lives in Lakshwadweep as Akbar and is a performer of the
Muslim ritual
Kuthu Ratheeb, along with Moosa. They are professional ritual dancers and during one such performance, he made eye contact with a young man named Ameer, who had just returned from Bombay. Ameer was Aamina's brother. Aamina is close with Akbar's family. Ameer was a mute and had learnt
sign language from Bombay, though only Akbar happens to understand it at least partly. Ameer was romantically interested in Akbar, however, Akbar was at first, ambivalent about expressing his feelings. Ameer invited Akbar to his home when Aamina and her mother were away. Akbar went to meet Ameer that night. Their relationship upset Akbar's family; Moosa beat up and warned Ameer to stay away from Akbar. Ameer got engaged to a woman, but he wanted to leave the island with Akbar and settle in Bombay. Akbar disapproved of the plan, leading Ameer to commit suicide. In the present, Akbar, knowing that his boss is looking to punish Mulla for dropping the package, approaches Aamina, who now works as a
cabaret dancer in Mumbai. Akbar asks her to take care of Mulla, but she refuses. So he leaves Mulla under the care of his transgender friend, Lateef. The don threatens to kill Akbar and Salim, if he does not receive the money lost for the dropped package. But Akbar claims a bigger assignment to pay the debt. He is assigned with 20 other thugs to transfer a huge amount of money to a middleman, but fails to do so as he is ambushed by another gang in a car chase, after being backstabbed by a gang member. Later, Lateef returns home high on drugs and attempts to get Mulla to try them too, which frightens her and makes her run away from him. Later Lateef tells Mulla to accept who she is and dress appropriately. She goes back to Akbar's base only to realise that he has been caught by the police. Salim uses this opportunity to sell her. Lateef bails Akbar out of jail, and upon release, he comes to know that Mulla has been sold. He beats up Salim asking for her whereabouts. He takes Akbar to the place where he sold her, where Akbar is shocked on seeing something and gets shot at the same time.In the next scene, it is revealed that a year has passed. One of Akbar’s street boys who once tried to propose to Mulla knocks on the door of a brothel room, only for Mulla to open it with long hair, wearing women’s clothing and smiling. ==Cast==