Pethappan and his three friends, all age 9. Play in a well belonging to an other man. When the man discovers them, he smacks them with a stick and Chases them away. Exhausted of getting beaten up every time, pethappan along with his friends decide to construct a well in his own land. However, since pethappan’s family has a generational curse with water, his grandmother does not approve of the idea. To action of theirs to dig a well. Did the boy dig a well or did the grandmother save pethappan from the cruse ?This is the base of the story