The story is set in the year 2070. The narrator is a 70-year-old woman living alone in the town of Kumbakonam in Tamil Nadu in India. When she gets to spend some time with her grandsons, she learns that they are not proud about being Indian or about the National movement. She decides to change their mindset by taking them back to the period of India's freedom movement with the help of the time machine. Over a period of three days, the narrator and her two grandsons embark on a trip covering some of the important places and events of the National Movement starting from the East, West, North and South, thereby witnessing all the events live. At the end of the trip, her grandsons are convinced that the Indian National Movement is a heritage which should be carried forward by every Indian forever. The story also parallelly explores how the world has changed over the years.