The Mappila handles all the financial aspects for Unni following ancient ways. He seems careless about wanting to get his sisters married, and selfish in order to keep his support system in place. His sisters cook, clean, and do all the household chores for him. He is taken care by his sisters and an old agriculture partner & neighbor, Scaria Mappila. His only activities are reading the newspaper and oiling himself. He is seen spending most of his day in idleness and sleeping. He also does not seem to have any masculine, authoritative characteristics of a feudal patriarch. Unni, the patriarch, in spite of the looming changes in the family's fortune and the times, retains the old attitudes and is portrayed as proud, and incapable of adjusting to the impending downfall of his family and remains oblivious to it. The film begins by showing the audience about a rat problem, and Sridevi taking initiative to catch and drown rats in the house. The film is set in the now derelict manor house of an aristocratic family, that has obviously seen better days. The movie's title 'Rat Trap' is a metaphor for a state of oblivion to changes in the external world, such as the disintegration of the feudal system in which some are caught leading to irrelevance & destruction. Eventually, succumbing to the adverse conditions surrounding him, Unni becomes entrapped in his attitudes & ways, helpless like a rat in a trap. They struggle as the traditional feudal way of life becomes untenable. A middle-aged man Unni and his two sisters live in an ancient tharavadu (manor) in Kerala.
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