A Gram Panchayat or a village governing body in rural India facilitates the formation of the Makkala Samiti or Children's Committee - a children's body elected by the children themselves. The committee acts as a pressure group to intervene in various social and civic issues that they think are important. Guided by a sympathetic school teacher, the children's honesty and persistency ruffles many a feather amongst the adults, some of whom have been using the Makkala Samiti to their own ends. What follows is a subtle cat-and-mouse game, by the end of which the children hope to get their voices heard...