A young, widowed,high school drop-out mother, Shanti is employed as a servant in DR Nandini's ( revathi) house where she is treated as part of the family. Shanti works in several other place to supplement her monthly income so that she can provide a better life for her daughter Abhinaya.😊💗 A little recaptulation.....

However, Abhinaya is not interested in her studies and loves to chat with her friends,watch TV ,play and convey one day to her mother that her ambition in life is that to become a servant as servant as well . Shanti (her mom) is shock hearing this and conveys this to her boss,who in turn advises her to challenge her daughter.

Shanti realized that if she was more educated, she would be able to mentor as well as tutor her daughter and thus motivated her to improve in her studies. So with Dr Nandini's help , she is enrolled in the same school as her daughter's classmate . This angry Abhinaya who hates to see her mom in her daily school life . Shanti proves to her daughter that age doesn't make any difference to learning and that she can pick up where she left off several years ago .

Shanti's studies hard and challenges Abhinaya to score higher marks than her in the half _ yearly exams . Abhinaya starts taking math seriously and does well in her exams . Seeing this , Shanti thinks Abhinaya has turned over into a new leaf and her attitude has changed. So she wants to discontinues school. Seeing this Abhinaya confesses that her hard work to succeed in math and pass the exam was so that her mom could drop out of school. There is this wonderful twist which shows the psychology human nature.

Shanti works night and day to earn and collect money for her daughter's future, while the daughter spend all that earned money in one day . Abhinaya comes home with new clothes,shoes to find her mom through jars to find where the money she earn for Abhinaya future went . They argue and Abhinaya says what she knows what Shanti's job is and that she sees a man drop her home every day at night.Abhinaya finally learned the truth about her mom from her classmate and ashamed of her rebellious behavior.

She realises the value of education and her mother's dream which is Abhinaya. Her goal is to make Abhinaya's life more independent. The final scenes show Abhinaya passing her 10th standard and then years later getting interviewed by these IAS offices , who ask her why she is pursuing civil service and her reply says it all . So that I do not become a maid .