The story revolves around the film’s eight-year-old protagonist, Kannu (Kanojia), who lives in a slum and dreams of building a toilet for his mother. After his mother Sargam (Patil) gets raped when she goes out in the night to defecate in the open, Kannu takes charge of improving the conditions in the slum. In his quest to build a toilet, Kannu writes a letter to the prime minister and travels to Delhi from Mumbai with his fellow comrades Ringtone (Bharti) and Nirala (Prasad).