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- After the wedding the bride, [Sogand Rahmani] the groom [Atila Pesiani] and their relatives set out for the village where they will be living. A severe storm comes, the bride and groom lose the way and take refuge in a mansion. Shazdeh and his steward [Parviz Poorhosseini] decide to spend two nights there. Five years earlier Shazdeh's wife [Susan Taslimi] got lost there when she went into a hall of mirrors. In an abandoned basement the bride meets Shazdeh's wife who says she has been imprisoned in a black pit since the wedding night. Shazdeh and the son-in-law doubt the steward and when they go from the hall of mirrors to the black pit they pursue him. In the ensuing struggle the steward is killed by Shazdeh's wife. The bride and groom leave the mansion and after years of separation Shazdeh and his wife sit and talk. The wife knocks over a candlestick and the mansion is consumed by fire.
- The actress Sanaa Kamal [Soheir Ramzy] was murdered in her bed. The investigator summoned all those who were in her home on the night of her death including her fiancee Ahmad Saber, the director of the company that published the papers the actress used to help build the building, his friend who betrayed his wife and the strong young man who sold his body to the actress while at the same time making plans to steal the treasury at an institution. Then everyone who was at the party at her home that night was arrested after the investigator discovered the crime took place during the party. Her fiance the film director admitted he had killed her out of jealousy.
- In the Umayyad era, the shepherdess Salama with a charming voice is in love with Abdrahman, but Ibn Suhail stands in their way, which makes her run away for fear of herself and her love, and Abdrahman begins his journey searching for her.
- When a man met a dancer he became enamored of her and married her. After that the dancer stopped working and took up housekeeping. The dancer had a son who would occasionally meet her without telling the man he existed. These secret meetings made the man suspicious and the cabaret owner, who had suffered a loss when the dancing stopped, exacerbated the suspicions. This went to the point where the man and the dancer separated. Finally the truth became known and this time the man and the dancer began living peacefully together with her son.
- Akbar, Nader, Abbas and Reza, who have been good friends since childhood, all want to achieve an aspiration. Abbas and Nader are wearing uniforms, Akbar joins his uncle's smuggling gang and Reza, who is paralyzed, does not wish for anything other than to continue his friendship with the other three. Reza's sister Masoumeh and Akbar have been interested in each other since they were children. Akbar gains credibility among the members of the smuggling group and gets the nickname Shark. While transporting a satchel of smuggled goods Akbar kills a gendarme and goes to Abbas's house wounded. Abbas turns him over to the police and he is sentenced to death in court. Masoumeh visits Akbar and becomes engaged to him. Before the execution she asks that Nader serve as one of the excecutioners.
- This is the story of the life and death of anti-monarchist revolutionary Sayed Ali Andarzgoo. In Bahman 1343 [21 January - 19 February 1964] Mohammad Andarzgoo and several other people waited in front of the Majles building for Hassan'Ali Masour to arrive in his chauffeured black limousine; when he arrived they assassinated him. Agents did much investigation and finally arrested and executed all the perpetrators with the exception of Sayed Ali Andarzgoo. SAVAK agents kept looking for Andarzgoo because they considered him one of the main planners of the assassination, but he eluded arrest several times, moving with his family from one place to another. Finally SAVAK agents found where he was living and killed him in a street shootout.
- The head of the family, Adel (Mohamamd al-Dib) did not want another daughter, so when Yasmin was born he left her at the door of a shelter. Adel later died; the girl grew up and ran away from the shelter to join a gang of pickpockets as Atuta. She happens to meet an unemployed trumpet player, Wahid (Anwar Wagdi) who asked her to help him with his act, stop stealing, and repent. She lives with him for a time but got tired of the respectable life and went back to the gang. Wahid discovers that Atuta was a rich man's daughter. When Atuta's gang robs her grandfather's [Zaki Rostom] villa, the gang is arrested; Atuta becomes Yasmin again and returns to her mother (Madiha Yousri), who marries Wahid.
- The unknown artist Wahid (Anwar Wagdi) married his colleague the unknown artist Drop of Dew (Shadia) and they set out to create work for themselves that was worthy of their talents. Time passed and this was not achieved. Wahid decided to play a trick to make himself into a famous person; he claimed he had killed his wife. His trick succeeded and he acquired great fame. A lady's body was found; the police thought it was his wife's body and that he was really the murderer. Wahid said his wife had not been killed and that she was alive somewhere. His wife had been in an automobile accident which caused memory loss. Wahid was sentenced to death. The lawyer tried to restore the wife's memory quickly to save Wahid from the death penalty; he succeeded in doing this at the last moment and Wahid was accordingly released. His fame began with that; then there was a quick change in his theater contracts and the trick enabled him to achieve the kind of renown he had never imagined.
- Abdel Sabour [Mahmoud El-Meliguy] was a thief and a smuggler known as The Beast to the people in one of the villages of upper Egypt; everyone was afraid of him, including the police. He enjoyed the protection of Redwan Pasha, [Abbas Fares] who in turn used him during elections to eliminate his rivals. Officer Raouf Saleh was sent to the village with his wife and son with the assignment of arresting The Beast. However The Beast and his gang worked together from the beginning trying to dispose of the officer and his family in any way possible.
- In the years before the Iranian revolution, after winning the Asian Gold Medal a bicycling champion named Gol Aqa [Ali Reza Khamseh] received an enthusiastic welcome from his compatriots when he returned to his birthplace in the City of Semnan. The government officials in his town immediately ordered that he attend a meeting about welcoming the shah's sister Ashraf Pahlavi on her arrival in the city. The district governor [Ali Nassirian] and the military and security officials asked Gol Aqa to use his popularity to persuade the people to make the carpets in their homes available to the district governor for carpeting the welcome route. Gol Aga did not agree to this but after his fiancee's brother, who was a city journalist, was abducted to provoke him, he asked the district governor and the military officials to respond and invite the people to participate. Gol Aqa's father Os Khaled [Valiyollah Shirandami] was opposed to participation by his son and the people of the town in the welcome proceedings. This was why the royal family's welcome to the city was on the same day as the wedding. The people attended the grand celebration of Gol Aqa's wedding, but the only city residents present at the welcome proceedings were the district governor and the city officials.
- Tooba Kazerooni [Parvaneh Massoumi] and her husband Khalil Asadi, a narcotics smuggler, come to Tehran from the southern part of the country. She is given a seven-year prison sentence because she has unwittingly gotten caught up in her husband's illegal activities transporting narcotics. In Tooba's absence her husband is unable to manage so he sells their three-month-old daughter Ghazal to Fereydoun Behnam, [Iraj Rad] a painter. After serving her time Tooba looks everywhere for her husband and daughter. After much effort she finds Khalil living in a basement and inquires about Ghazal. Her husband tells her Ghazal died years ago. Tooba leaves her husband in anger. The man, who has repented and changed and is living in a life crisis, accidentally causes a basement fire. Severely burned and hospitalized, he tells the truth about what happened to Ghazal and gives Tooba the address of the painter who has her. The conflicts begin here and Tooba's life enters a new crisis phase.
- Plot summary: Qasem Khan [Akbar Khajavi] thought he owned part of the ocean and got into a clash with some fishermen over fishing rights. Everyone joined the fight and after Qasem Khan's people dispersed the fishermen they confiscated the fish they had caught. After his son Masoud [Mohammad Ali Jafari] attacked him and said his claim to ownership of part of the sea was unconscionable Qasem Khan drove him out of the house; he took refuge with the people. Ahmad [Fardin] liked Kazem's [Gholamhossein Naghshineh] daughter Maryam [Forouzan]. Ahmad went to sea fishing with a group of fishermen but the sea was tempestuous and he turned up missing. A girl named Ghazaleh [Tahmine] living near the beach with her father [Ali Zandi] found Ahmad washed ashore unconscious; she looked after him with his broken leg. In Ahmad's absence Masoud began teaching literacy to the local people and got close to Maryam, who was pregnant with Ahmad's child; Masoud married her to save her honor and told everyone he was the father of her child. Some time later Ahmad came back to his coastal home, but Maryam preferred living with Masoud. Ghazaleh was waiting for Ahmad after Maryam left him alone on the beach.
- In the years before the revolution Dr. Matin [Jamshid Hashempur] was initially a combatant students, but due to plotting by his father-in-law, who was one of the heads of SAVAK, he betrayed his fellow combatants and thereby became prosperous. His wife and her family went abroad after the revolution. To compensate for the past Matin gave all his assets to a hospital while he worked full time at another government hospital. One of his assistants named Afsaneh Parsi, [Sorayya Golmohammadi] who was also a nurse, fell in love with him. The nurse's fiancee Afshin Rahgozar [Changiz Vossoughi] saw this relationship as a betrayal. After numerous clashes between Afshin and Matin, one day the hospital was bombed by the Iraqis and Afsaneh was seriously injured. Dr. Matin tried to save her but could not do so. When Afshin saw Matin's human relationship with Afsaneh he saw his own mistake. Then Afsaneh's vital signs miraculously returned.
- During the Iran-Iraq War a soldier named Naser along with three of his comrades-in-arms (Ahmad, Qasem and Mohammad) are sent to the front to patrol and collect information. Naser gave his wedding ring to his fiancee Atefeh, to whom he had just become engaged, just in case he didn't come back from the fighting. To conduct the mission they were planning to take a secret route shown to them by a local guide, but the guide was killed by the Iraqis and the group was obliged to use the main route for reconnaissance. The mission to blow up a logistics bridge along the passage was conducted well but Qasem and Mohammad, who were wearing Iraqi uniforms, were shot as spies. Naser and Ahmad both escaped after being tortured by two Iraqis.
- Monir [Farid Al Atrache] was an insignificant employee at the Telegraph Company, and an artist: a musician who had never found a place for himself. He met a dancer named Nadia [Samia Gamal] and they fell in love, but Monir soon became jealous of Nadia's dancing teacher Ghazal [Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy] and ended his relationship with her. He met a girl named Souraya [Zeinat Sedki] who was about to commit suicide because her father [Hassan Fayek] was forcing her to marry someone she did not love. Monir talked her out of doing that, but her fiance immediately disliked him. It later became apparent Monir had no interest in marrying Souraya; he went back to Nadia after his faith in her love was restored. His father financed his production of a big musical, which became an outstanding success.
- Mr. Saadat's [Morteza Ahmadi] daughter Manizheh [Soroor Najatollahi] has agreed to marry Engineer Mehran [Ali Shoa'i]. Mr. Saadat, a mistrustful man, has Mr. Taqi [Akbar Abdi] keep an eye on Mehran. Mr. Taqi claims Mehran is a member of a gang of heroin smugglers. It soon becomes clear the smuggler in question [Babak Shoa'i] is someone else who resembles Mehran and lives in the building where Saadat lives; Mehran and Mr. Saadat's daughter are free to marry.
- A young employee named Mehraban who is unhappy with his hard life meets a mysterious old man dressed in black. The old man says he will get Mehraban what he wants on the condition that he make the right use of his opportunities. Mehraban agrees. The old man leaves a newspaper with him dated three months in the future reporting the war between Iran and Iraq. Mehraban makes a lot of money by purchasing essential goods, hoarding them and then selling them later at much higher prices during the war. However he loses his fiancee and breaks with his friends. The mysterious old man appears again. He tells him he has abused his privileged opportunity and not to continue on the wrong path; on their last meeting he tells him he has become a monster and he must either to go back to his former life or die. The fear of death causes Mehraban to donate his illegitimate funds to charities and return to his honorable life.
- h Hesham [Imad Hamdi] to succeed him after his death and to bring with him the Knight Karim Khan to take care of government security. The governor's wife and her lover [Ali Marjan] poisoned the governor before the arrival of Sheikh Hesham but the governor had been cautious and written a will.
- Rashid Bakhti [Khosro Shakibai] is a school teacher who lives in a village on the outskirts of Tehran with his wife Iran [Mahnaz Afzali] and son. With difficulty he is able to build a house on a hill but he soon realizes Iran is about to die from a kidney disease. Because of his bad financial situation, nothing he does for Iran is of any use until the mother of one of his apparently undisciplined students goes to the hospital without the Rashid's knowledge and donates one the student's kidneys to Iran.
- Masoud wants to leave his wife Parvaneh and their daughter and go to Europe. But before that they going on a trip to see some of their relatives. In the way a stranger who is injured rides with them and forces them with a gun to go to Payizan village. This and what happens next change Masoud's intention of going west.
- Musical comedy with Mohammed Abdelwahab and Leila Mourad
- In his old age when the Bakhtiari tribe of southwestern Iran is about to migrate Karbala-ye Zal (Kol Zal) decides to wait for their return in a cave. He recounts the courageous exploits of his days as a young fighter, for an old woman named Dalu Sangin Mah who wanders into his cave one night as she is about to kill herself. Dalu Sangin Mah realizes Karbala-ye Zal is the same Bakhtiari man who had been in love with her in his youth and had fought over her with the son of Abbas Qoli. By the time the tribe returns both Karbala-ye Zal and Dalu Sangin Mah have died.
- An old man which have several children and grandchildren decides to marry an old woman.His desire have some compliants and some dissidents.
- For some time Taha [Saber Abar] and Reyhan [Nazanin Bayati] have been looking after an old man named Manuchehr Asef [Khosro Bamdad] because of a newspaper advertisement. When Asef dies of natural causes Taha and Reyhan are taken by surprise and have no idea what to do.
- Wahid the musician loves a dancer named Wela [Samia Gamal] and proposes marriage to her after her return from a business trip. However while Wela is away Wahid marries a singer named Nousa [Nour Al Hoda] as part of a ruse arranged by Nousa's uncle Ghazal, [Stephan Rosti] who wants to marry Wela.
- Following a common pattern, a young man named Parvin [Ahmad Ghadakchian] from an outlying municipality looking for work and a better life comes to Tehran and moves into a crowded apartment building. He soon becomes enamored of a neighbor girl [Vida Ghahremani] who also has another admirer. Before long his rival falls in love with another girl and then the two couples marry at the same time.
- In 1987 on her wedding night Kali, [Parivash Nazarieh] a girl from Halabche, is waiting for her father, who is supposed to return to attend the wedding after years of being away, but that very night he is killed by Ba'th Party agents after he has gotten close enough to be able to see the wedding from a distance. Government agents attack the wedding party and arrest the young groom, whose name is Mohammad, and take him to an unknown location. Kali looks everywhere for her husband and finds her father's grave in the city of Soleymanieh. In that area the Iraqi army is meeting fierce popular resistance and has also been attacked by Iranian forces. It is forced to retreat and while doing so it bombs the people with chemical weapons. Kali takes refuge in Iran with another group; there she finds her husband Mohammad among some Kurdish resistance forces.
- Esmail Meshkin, [Esmaeel Mehrabi] who works at an insurance company theft inspectorate, is having spiritual and psychological problems in his private life. He gets the job of investigating a theft at a big jewelry store. The store owner offers Meshkin a bribe, but he prefers to do his job.
- Two journalist friends were working at a news agency trying to find effective reports for publication. One of them told a girl he was in love with her. She tried to trap them for an international gang that was working to smuggle goods out of the country. The two friends discovered what the girl was doing and decided to go after the gang and expose her criminal activities to international and local authorities. The chase began and the girl decided to leave the gang and help her lover. The gang was arrested and the boy married his repentant love.
- Ali Nasseri, a biology teacher who has recently quit his addiction, goes back to his birthplace in the Province of Mazandaran after three years. Because of his father's good background he is returned to his teaching job. He takes a personal interest in the problems of a troubled student.
- Mokhtar [Mansi Fahmi] was a learned man and a thinker who did not acknowledge the authority of women. He maintained a barrier in his relations with them, but then a woman named Ahlam conquered his heart and he changed his mind. His friend and student Rauf [Yehia Chahine] also loved Ahlam, who was living with Mokhtar at the time to escape the authority of her criminal father after Mokhtar had taken her in to help her recover from an attempted suicide. Mokhtar offered to marry her to protect her from her father, without knowing Rauf's feelings about her and even though she did not love him. After they had an argument Ahlam ran away with Rauf but then went back to Mokhtar because she felt guilty. She discovered he had gone blind and become more violent and cruel than ever. He threatened to kill himself if she left him. Ahlam shot herself but survived; Mokhtar then sacrificed his love for her so she could marry Rauf.
- Touna [Naima Akef] and Amin [Rushdy Abaza] were sweethearts in Damietta in a fishing compound owned by their two fathers. They loved the constant clear skies and the pure waters and each became angry and jealous when perceiving the other interacting casually with a member of the opposite gender. Amin's boat was caught in a storm and he was badly injured. A theater director [Youssef Wahby] recognized Touna's talent and offered her work as a performer, so she went to Cairo and became a showgirl so she could pay Amin's costly medical expenses at a Cairo hospital.
- A war-weary old man [Nematollah Gorji] takes his furniture and household goods to Tehran in a pickup to give to his daughter Karimeh [Fatemah Motamed-Aria]. On the way he is killed in an enemy air strike. Mostafa, [Hamid Jebeli] the driver of the pickup truck, decides to take the old man's property to Karimeh; he brings his own mother [Soraya Ghasemi] along. In Tehran one of the old man's trunks is stolen from the back of the pickup when Mostafa leaves it overnight in a parking lot. Mostafa complains to the police and they find it with difficulty. The mother gives the trunk, which is filled with wedding garments, to Karimeh. When she realizes the girl is living alone she arranges for her and Mostafa to marry.
- The husband [Abdel Hafiz al-Tatawy] of a pretty dancer named Hoda [Sharifa Fadel] catches her with her lover Hossam and pulls out a gun to shoot her. In her defense Hossam [Rushdy Abaza] turns the gun back against the husband and shoots him. Hossam flees and as he is about to board a train he sees a police inspector [Youssef Wahby] at the station, who then sits opposite him in the passenger car. Hossam moves to another car but the officer follows him and falls asleep with him in a private cabin; Hossam leaves the train and gets on a bus, but the officer again runs to catch the bus and sits opposite him. At this point Hossam is convinced the officer is pursuing him and confesses to the shooting. He is surprised to learn the inspector knows nothing about his crime; the inspector has just been on his way to attend his sister's wedding. The inspector decides to cancel the vacation to turn the criminal in. On the way to the police station during another escape attempt it becomes clear to the officer that Hossam has fled his father's home and that he has seduced a girl who has had his baby. The inspector has emotional conflicts and wants to correct what is between Hossam and Hoda. He brings them together and discovers the man Hossam shot did not die. Hossam is released and goes back to Hoda.
- A group of monarchists is conducting operations to import and distribute narcotics. Mahmoud, [Majid Mozaffarani] an anti-narcotics agent, is pursuing two members of the group named Sohrab and Javad. Sohrab is arrested and Javad gets away. To thwart Mahmoud's measures the monarchist organizations summon to Iran his former wife Roya, [Afsaneh Bayegan] who had married Mahmoud on the recommendation of the monarchists and the security organization, so she can use their son Amir to get close to Mahmoud and determine how much he knows about Sohrab's situation. Mahmoud drives his wife away. The monarchist group kidnaps Mahmoud and sets things up for Roya to save him so she can win his confidence. After escaping Mahmoud recognizes the trick and learns the hiding place of the organization's leader Farahmand. Before his arrest Farahmand orders the killing of Roya, but Mahmoud arrives just in time and saves Roya and Amir. Roya goes to prison.
- This was the first documentary feature film made after the Iranian revolution. During the clash between the Army and the people on Black Friday 17 Shahrivar [8 September] 1978 three of the shah's palace guards left the square with their rifles, became fugitives and joined the people. A group of agents pursued the three soldiers, killed one and arrested the other two.
- On 5 June four hijackers, three men and a woman, hijack an Iranian passenger aircraft. Their commander is a person named Fariborz Atabaki [Nasser Aghayi]. Two of the passengers, one of whom later turns out to be an officer, disarm the hijackers; to the astonishment of the passengers they guide the aircraft to the same European destination the hijackers had intended. The original planners of the hijack hold a press conference at the destination. They say all the passengers are seeking asylum and ask the officer to tell the journalists his views. He says his reason for bringing the aircraft here is to show the world the passengers have no interest in political or social asylum; they all want to return to Iran.
- In this 105-minute marathon of uninterrupted buffoonery, the village mayor sends his son to Cairo along with al-Dandrawy to meet with Hamdy [Karem Mahmoud], who is working at the Tram Company so a school and a hospital can be built in the village. There is an emotional relationship between Hamdy and his neighbor Hamida [Shadia]. Hamida's Aunt Wedad [Zeinat Sedki] likes the musician Ghandour [Farid Shawqi], who has hired Hamida to sing in his group. Ghandour wants to marry Wedad, but she refuses him. Maria [Hind Rostom] likes Ghandour. The singing group goes to the mayor's village and Ghandour and Mandour [Aziz Osman] decide to steal a large amount of money so they can blame it on Hamdy, but their plan fails. Everyone knows Ghandour and Mandour are behind the theft. Hamdy marries Hamida and her Aunt Wedad marries the village mayor. Hind Rostom (1931-2011) appears here at the age of 22 in a prominent role as Maria, a singing and dancing brunette.
- In this domestic battle of the sexes comedy there is harsh bickering between husband Gamil Rushdy [Youssef Wahby] and wife Fekiya [Hoda Soltan]. The husband insults his wife and their life becomes such an unbearable hell that the husband uses an obedience cane on his wife. This only makes matters worse so they go to a judge. The wife demands a divorce and the husband demands that she live with him in a marital obedience dwelling. The judge sides with the husband and orders the wife to obey her husband and live in a special obedience dwelling where she must do as he directs. The wife complies and goes to the obedience dwelling (a special apartment that has been rented and furnished for the purpose with such things as signs that read "relatives are scorpions" and "down with my mother-in-law") with her mother [Marie Munib], who was the reason for most of the arguing. The husband works on refining his wife and the mother-in-law learns not to interfere in her daughter's affairs. Peace is restored, the disagreements between them disappear and love and happiness replace the disputes that were ruining their lives.
- Nadia was suffering because of the behavior of her deceptive sister Nawal. She sought counseling from Dr. Adel and during these consultations love grew between Adel the physician and Nadia the nurse. Nawal's sister married and then divorced a swindler, while Adel and Nadia eventually married when their love grew stronger.
- An old man has two problems. The first is to convince his prospective son-in-law to make a home for himself as soon as possible and remove the bride-to-be from his house, lest he banned from the old man's home. The second is the preservation of his savings, which he keeps as cash in the lining of his coat instead of in a bank. One day a thief [Akbar Abdi] comes into their apartment complex to take advantage of the old man's lack of awareness to give the slip to agents who are pursuing him. The thief grabs the coat and flees. From then on the old man, the son-in-law, the girl, the agents and the thief are all trying to get their hands on this valuable coat.
- Hamid is a music teacher for orphaned children who, together with his half-sister Maryam, takes a busload of them on a trip to the seaside. They cross paths with Minou, a young woman struggling to come to terms with her father's remarriage. Sympathetic to the orphans' situation, and hoping to provide a distraction from her attempts to bond with her stepmother, Minou invites them to come and stay on her land. As she and Hamid begin to fall in love, other agencies contrive to prevent them in this bittersweet comedy about chance encounters and love blossoming from the simplest of gestures.
- Every year a group of brigands plunders the village of Savalan. On the advice of the village headman the people of the village seek help opposing the brigands from a group of mercenaries led by Dorbush Khan. A youth named Salam also joins them. The mercenaries receive an enthusiastic welcome from the people of Savalan. Dorbush Khan and his group, who intend to plunder the people of Savalan first before they deal with the brigands, soon encounter opposition from the people. The brigands and the Dorbush Khan group decide to punish the people of Savalan severely, but Salam mobilizes and trains the people so they can take a stand against the plunderers.
- Karim's [Abdel Moneim Madbouly] first daughter Karima had breathtaking beauty. She loved a boy named Kamal [Samir Sabri] whose wealth she envied, but at the same time she was madly in love with her cousin, an ambitious engineer named Ahmad [Nour El-Sherif]. Meanwhile her sister Hoda's life had long been limited since her cousin had been chosen as a husband and they loved each other. The mother pushed her daughter Karima towards Kamal, but Karima's heart was with Ahmad. In light of Karima's ambivalence Ahmad saw no way out other than a relationship with his colleague Safa, while Kamal distanced himself from Karima and married a rich girl. Karima had fallen victim to her own ambivalence. Meanwhile her sister Hoda introduced her to an Arabic language teacher at the school where she worked, professor Younes, and tried to present her to him as a bride, but he quickly discovered she was worthless because she did not know how to do anything around the house. She was so interested in clothing and decorations that she became sick, and in the efforts by the physician, the sister, her husband and the father to heal Karima, Hamdi sent a letter to summon Ahmad to come and cure Karima, but she could not accept his marriage. She tried to separate them but failed and became disgusted with her own life. She rejected her mother's advice about making a new commitment to the completion of her studies.
- The father and mother of four brothers are in the bombing of a municipality; there are no traces to be found of their bodies. Their four sons Hadi (a film director), Jafar (a physician), Hassan (an engineer) and Jalal (a trader) go back to the the city of their birth to see their demolished home. The father appears intermittently before each of the brothers telling their mother is not well. The brothers begin an extensive search for their father and mother. They ultimately realize their parents have lived through the bombing.
- Akram [Afsaneh Bayegan] has an argument with her husband Majid Ostevari, [Faramarz Gharibian] a bank cashier. Majid vehemently objects to her taking money from his wallet without telling him. She leaves home in anger, goes home to her parents and falsely tells her father Abbas Safarian [Jamshid Mashayekhi] that Majid struck her. Majid has also come up 20000 tumans short in his cash drawer at the bank; then he has an accident driving home.
- In 1964 in northern Iran a young man named Hojjat Ali Abadi [Jahangir Almasi] working against the Capitulation Law is supposed to go with Rasul [Faramarz Gharibian] from village to village. Hojjat is killed in an attack by agents but before he dies he gives Rasul a satchel with his political leaflets to take to the village of Kalarabad. Rasul, who has been wounded, flees to the forest and takes shelter in a thatched hut belonging to an old man named Shir Ali, [Akbar Zanjanpour] a charcoal maker who was involved decades earlier with Gilani revolutionary Mirza Kuchek Khan Jangali. Shir Ali treats Rasul's injury and feeds him. Road agents want to destroy Shir Ali's hut to build a road because the forest has been nationalized and the government has claimed Shir Ali's hut; they do not trust Shir Ali and are keeping him under surveillance. Shir Ali shelters Rasul and then helps him flee, but he himself is shot by a government soldier while they are running away.
- After the holidays Amir Hossein Sanaifar [Bijan Emkanian] and his wife Homa [Sogand Rahmani] are heading back to Tehran so Amir can get back to work on time at the telephone company. He takes Homa to her sister's home in Rasht and then heads for the capital. Driving at night he hits a young boy. Thinking he has killed him he leaves him on the road. In Tehran a man named Nader [Parviz Poorhosseini] later informs him he has found his wallet at the accident site and that he is the boy's father. Years earlier Nader lost a leg in an accident and he is now planning to torment Amir for fleeing the scene. Nader has also told Homa about what happened, which further damages the already troubled relationship between Amir and Homa. It gradually becomes clear Nader's son is alive and Nader is planning to get revenge against Amir and his wife. Nader's wife tells Amir about her husband's intentions. When Nader is about to kill Homa Amir turns up and saves her.
- The story is based on the memoirs of a nomadic tribesman. During World War II when the allies are in Iran a Soviet Army mapping group gets lost in the Iranian desert. Two of them die of hunger and thirst and another is killed during a confrontation with a desert youth who is on his way home after doing military service. When the Soviet army goes looking for the ones who were killed it comes upon a camp of nomadic herders and finds evidence they had been through that area. The nomads are accused of killing the three Russians; the Russians arrest the men and take them to prison. The man who had killed the Russian soldier returns with other herders looking for a confrontation. Ultimately the prisoners escape and break into the armory. Many of the Soviets are killed in a revolt at their garrison.
- Javad and his young wife Atefeh [Mahshid Afsharzadeh] are in conflict over the treatment of their paralytic daughter Sahar [Sara Mahin Torabi]. Javad is in financial difficulties and has no hope for his daughter's improvement, but Atefeh is heartened by encouragement from their child's physician. He tells her an experienced surgeon may be able to solve the problem and gives her his contact information. Meanwhile one of Javad's friends named Reza, [Mohammad Shiri] who is a theater director, encourages him to take an important part in a children's play.