A ‘Gram Panchayat’ (village governing body) in Rural India facilitates the formation of the ‘Makkala Samiti’ (Children’s Committee) – a children’s body elected by the children themselves. The committee acts as a pressure group to intervene in various social and civic issues that they think are important. Guided by a sympathetic school teacher, the children’s honesty and persistency ruffles many a feathers amongst the adults, some of whom have been using the ‘Makkala Samiti’ to their own ends. What follows is a subtle cat-and-mouse game, by the end of which the kids hope to get their voices heard…