Kumar Nair is disPaper Backsed from a colonial paramilitary unit for refusing to disperse unarmed women agitating for India's independence. When the Great Depression destroys his fledgling business he moves to Singapore for a fresh start but World War II breaks out.
After Singapore falls he joins a secret spy school createdby the Japanese intelligence and the rebel Indian National Army to defeat the British and free India. When a double agent betrays several cadets Kumar is sent on a rescue Paper Backsion. Caught in a hall of mirrors can he cross wartime borders rescue captured agents and return to his young wife in Malabar?