Mansour is a troubled student at school. His mother, Shirin, is divorced, and his father, Esmal-Agha, is a Lompan. Afsaneh, Mansour's teacher, becomes interested in the boy and asks Esmal to stop doing wrong things and raise his son.

Reza Haft-Khat and his friend Mamal live by gambling and extortion. Reza pretends to be proficient in business affairs and in this way he meets Aghdas, Mirza's daughter, and promises to marry her.

Aghdas looks for a brave man who would avenge her brother's murderer. When she encounters Heydar, he marries her and promises to do so.

Amir kills a young man while robbing his house. Taghi, young man's father who is blind, seeks revenge

Gholam learns that his son is seeing a woman named Pari. He goes to Pari and asks her to leave his son alone. However, it is not long before he himself becomes infatuated with her and abandons his own family. After that, Karim leads Gholam into drug addiction.

Dash Akol is greatly respected in Shiraz as an honorable man who has lost his family's money through helping his friends. He has an enemy, however, named Kaka Rostam, a mean and spiteful person. Dash Akol, who is in his forties, falls in love with Marjan, daughter of the late Haji Samad, for whose estate he is the executor. But he keeps his love secret. One day a suitor asks for Marjan's hand, and Dash Akol considers it against his code of honor to refuse. On the night of the wedding, Dash Akol hands over responsibility for the family to the bridegroom. As he is leaving the house, however, Kaka Rostam is waiting for him and a fight ensues. Kaka Rostam stabs him in the back, but Dash Akol succeeds in killing him. On his deathbed, Dash Akol sends his parrot to Marjan with the confession of love he has taught it.