Simin is a lonely and mentally unstable woman. Her husband has disappeared recently. Now she has to confront men who have put her under pressure. Her mental problems worsen and she gradually loses her connection to reality, so she decides to do some dangerous things.

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.