A-Seyd Kazem, the guardian of the neighborhood, is the lover of his sister-in-law, Zinat. He rejects Zinat's suitors, including Teymour, until Davoud, the son of his old friend Jalal, comes to Tehran from Shiraz and becomes interested in Zinat.

Akbar follows the work from Arak to Tehran and leases a room that Mehdi, a businessman, has leased to him and Misha Yadollah.

Khalil and his sister’s fiancé, Sadegh, are caught by the gendarmes while delivering smuggled goods. They flee and take refuge in the hut of a gypsy girl named Salome. Khalil leaves the follow-up of the deal to Sadegh. However, Sadegh secretly informs the gendarmes by phone about Khalil’s hiding place and then uses the money from selling the smuggled goods to open a café for himself...

Mehdi “the Leopard” is released from prison after seven years, only to find Ghasem and his gang standing in his way — they have shut down his gambling den and driven the neighborhood to desperation. Mehdi helps an old woman, and her granddaughter Maryam — whose father is in prison — asks Mehdi to pretend to be her father in front of her friends. Mehdi agrees, and the two gradually grow fond of each other. Ghasem and his men plot to kill Mehdi, and after failing in their first attempt, they kidnap Maryam...