Comical tale about how the coward Nazar who, as a joke of fate, appears to preside over the throne.

The film is about the establishment of a kolkhoz (collective farm) in a Kurdish village in Soviet Armenia.

The prince falls in love with an ordinary girl and marries her. Later, when enemies capture the prince, it's his young wife who gets him out of trouble.

The plot is based on the struggle of red partisan-fishermen for the establishment of Soviet order in Armenia.

A naive peasant appears by turns during the Civil War in two hostile camps and finally chooses the Red Army.