Gurbanali Bey is a slave of the officials of Tsarist Russia. If they say die, he dies, if they say stay, he stays. After Gurbanali Bey gets drunk at a party, he invites all the guests to his house, but they say that a drunkard has no memory. The Bey, who forgets this, falls into a bad situation and is disgraced...

The main storyline is built around a one-hundred-manat banknote. As the banknote passes from hand to hand, it continually changes owners, but in the end, in an unexpected twist, it belongs to no one. Those who come into possession of it represent different social classes and professions—among them a traffic police officer, a singer, a fortune-teller, a mullah, and others. Thus, the 100-manat note changes hands in various ways… and all these exchanges are accompanied by comic events.

Rasim is a theater director. However, since the theater was closed, him and the cast were left unemployed. Due to impotence, they start to engage in fraud. Since they can only play roles, in order to earn a living, these fraudulent actors are forced to create their characters in real life. That is, they see the events in real life and play their role on the stage of life.

The film tells the story of the difficult lives of actors.

The movie describes the last remaining years of the great Azerbaijani poet, Huseyn Javid who was the victim of 1937-1938 USSR repression.

The events in the film begin with a desperate man named Ziyadkhan gathering his children. The children's indifference and disloyalty, who have not visited their father for years and who have not shown any interest in their fathers, especially after their mother's death, are exposed.