A young employee named Mehraban who is unhappy with his hard life meets a mysterious old man dressed in black. The old man says he will get Mehraban what he wants on the condition that he make the right use of his opportunities. Mehraban agrees. The old man leaves a newspaper with him dated three months in the future reporting the war between Iran and Iraq. Mehraban makes a lot of money by purchasing essential goods, hoarding them and then selling them later at much higher prices during the war. However he loses his fiancee and breaks with his friends. The mysterious old man appears again. He tells him he has abused his privileged opportunity and not to continue on the wrong path; on their last meeting he tells him he has become a monster and he must either to go back to his former life or die. The fear of death causes Mehraban to donate his illegitimate funds to charities and return to his honorable life.

A Muslim fighter is injured in a clash with security officers. His sister rescues him from the officers and he takes refuge in a house frequented by the son of a high-ranking SAVAK official, who is not a Muslim. The young man falls in love with the girl, but her father, a SAVAK officer, who is against their marriage, creates trouble for the fighter's siblings. As a result of the sibling clashes, the boy is influenced by the sibling's actions and converts to Islam and marries the girl. A short time later, he and the girl's brother are killed in a clash with security officers.