Two female students and classmates Somayeh and Mitra, Mitra is not very constrained; She does not have a father and lives with her mother, who does not pay much attention to her lifestyle.

Leila is called to a military camp to identify the body of a martyr.

A minstrel named Kamous is standing before Rostam. One out of many stories he has recited for people is: What befell Sohrab with Rostam. Rostam believes that the story the minstrel is narrating-- the Tragedy of Sohrab, is inverted, gone astray and wrongful. And he questions the minstrel "why?" Here, with Rostam questioning the minstrel another story begins which is the opening of our narrative.