Oru Kochu Swapnam (transl.One small dream) is a 1984 Indian Malayalam-language family drama film directed and shot by Vipin Das and written by Joseph Madappally. The film stars Mohanlal, Ilavarasi, Nedumudi Venu, Seema, and Unnimary. The film score was composed by M. B. Sreenivasan. The story is about a teenage girl lacking proper sex education exploring her sexuality.[1][2][3]
Sulu and her younger sister Sindhu has no family and lives alone by their own. Sulu is a co-operative bank employee and Sindhu is a school-going teenager. Sulu is in a secret romantic relationship with her co-worker in the bank, Venu. Sulu is several years elder than Sindhu, so she treats her as a child as if they were mother and daughter. Sulu is concerned about Sindhu's growth, she advises her to limit her physical interaction with boys, Sindhu becomes ambivalent. As their life goes on, Sindhu reaches menarche, despite knowing that she has reached puberty, other than being overprotective, Sulu is too embarrassed to give her proper sex education.
One day, Sindhu finds out about the relationship between Sulu and Venu by chance. Sulu is embarrassed. Sulu and Venu decide to make their relationship public, they marries at a short ceremony and moves to Venu's house, taking along Sindhu with them. Sindhu has good results in her higher secondary exams and has now admitted to a college. Sindhu's neighbour Jaya also studies in their college and she has had multiple romantic relationship with boys. Jaya teaches her more about romantic relationships with opposite-sex, at one time, she also hands her over an adult pornographic magazine.
スルはシンドゥへの過保護を減らし、ヴェヌと過ごす時間を増やす。シンドゥはそれを感じ始め、ある日、夕食中にそのことで二人は公然と対立する。スルは、食事の給仕を自分に頼っているとシンドゥを叱責する。シンドゥは徐々に新しい状況に適応していく。その一方で、彼女は同年代の男女間の親密な関係や、姉夫婦の性的な関係にますます興味を持つようになる。スルとヴェヌは、夫婦のひとときを過ごしている時に、盗み聞きや覗き見をしているところを何度もシンドゥに見つかってしまう。ついに二人は、シンドゥを大学近くの寮に移すことにする。