Parvin meets a young man named Jalal Agha-Balakhan on the street and takes him to his friend Azar's birthday party. Jalal, who is a mechanic, introduces himself as a engineer Omidvar. Parvin also pretends that his father is a police colonel. Azar is also interested in Jalal; But soon Bahram, Azar's friend, seeing Jalal in the mechanical workshop, doubts Jalal's job and social status and discusses the matter with Azar and Parvin.

In one of his daily wanderings, Ghasem Siah, a young jobless guy who leads a street life, runs into a young American tourist girl who is spending her last day in Tehran. Without understanding each other's words, they strike up a friendship and the girl accepts to sleep with him. But Ghasem doesn't have a place of his own and the girl is about to depart by the next morning. Together they set off on the glistening yet hostile streets of modernizing Tehran of the 70s, in a futile search of a corner of intimacy, while time is ticking away....

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.

A number of the mine workers have gone on strike. Ebraam, who is the workers’ representative, is forced—under the employer’s threats—to sign a contract that makes conditions even tighter for the workers. Overcome with shame and guilt, Ebraam hangs himself, and the townspeople force his wife and his sons, Aslaan and Salim, to leave their home. They move south, and years later Aslaan, by working at the Port Authority, manages to provide Salim with the means to study. Salim goes to the capital to continue his education, and Aslaan enters the service of Farrokh in order to steal the property of Teymour, the port’s contractor.

A capricious man who is suspicious of his wife spells her out of the house with her little son Nemat who is a cripple. The boy grows up while working in various jobs from selling oil in

A family man falls in love with a widow, only to ruin his reputation and lose his wealth.

The first story: a teacher's daughter who is related to a group of revolutionaries, is arrested and tortured. He who is not willing to give his information to the agents of the security organization will be executed. The second story: A young revolutionary named Mehdi is arrested and tortured. He condemns the royal system in the court of order. The agents torture and execute him. The third incident: Ayatollah Taleghani who is in prison is being tortured. He resisted so much that he was released in the blind revolution, along with other political prisoners.