Raman tells the story of Raman (Anoop Chandran), a village tea-shop assistant in Kerala and Diya Raman (Avantika Akerkar), wife of the US Defence Secretary. A media activist, she is trying to make a documentary about the adverse impact of American imperialism, worldwide. The film has two parallel tracks, one set in India shows how globalisation creates economic and cultural imbalances in developing nations, the other is about the US's violent invasion of Iraq.
The film tells the story of friendship and love in campus. This film narrates the life of a family when the elder boy of the family, on whom all the hopes rested, got attracted by communist ideologies, renounces religious beliefs, get involved in bloody politics and an attempted murder and was forced to go in exile. From there he and his friend were taken to a terrorist outfit and were eventually shot dead in the encounter between militants and security forces. The film gives the message of the value of family, faith and social living.