The Legend of a Sigh is Tahmineh Milani's strikingly feminist film which draws on the literature of Azarbayejan province. The protagonist is a female novelist who experiences the lives of four women from different social strata. The film offers a fascinating portrait of a range of Iranian women and their problems

Maryam loses her inheritance and her fiancé, Parviz, due to the conspiracy of her uncle and her cousin Nazi after her father's death...

"Mehdi" is in love with a woman named "Parvin," who has a daughter from her previous marriage that she has hidden. Mehdi and Parvin get married, but the presence of an evil man named "Hashem" disrupts their peaceful life. Mahdi becomes lost, and Parvin ends up working as a dancer in cabarets.

Mehdi is madly in love with Goli; he follows her everywhere and, because of jealousy, murders Goli’s fiancée, Amir. Goli in search of Amir is confronted with Mehdi and raped. Mehdi is arrested and convicted, but because of lack of evidence he is released and again begins to hurt Goli.