A serious twist of fate befell two brothers—both single, mind you—when, at the beginning of the film, their mother torments Morteza (Bahman Mofid) for the umpteenth time to settle down and marry the beautiful Talla; (in effect, a quasi-arranged Iranian marriage). Enveloped in anger, Morteza repeats to his mother that he wants neither the cries of children nor the company of women except his mother’s. Meanwhile, elsewhere, his brother Mojtaba, who will enter into discord in due course, happens to catch a glimpse of the same woman in the street whom they will unwittingly fight over.

In a humorous moment, when a bully picks on a child drinking water in the street, Mojtana intervenes and seconds later, while washing himself in a pond, Talla appears and it is love at first sight.

Mojtana then asks the same 5-year-old boy where they live so that he can visit the beautiful girl in the house with the pond and a six-sided turbine. It only took a few seconds for Morteza to see Talla’s physical beauty to run out of her house in awe and run to his mother to accept what she asked him to do: go at night to ask for Talla’s hand in marriage with her family. Meanwhile, Mojtaba follows Talla through the Persian alleys, very closely and very flirtatiously, once he found out her address. It was cute to see how he embarrassed and harassed her until she reached her front door.

‘Give me a date or say something that will make me happy,’ the moustachioed Mojtana implores her until she replies, ‘Come to the national park at noon.’ Unfortunately, Mojtaba will be left waiting because Talla’s mother plans to marry her off to Morteza, the other brother who cried with anger at his grandmother-mother for not marrying him, unlike his brother who did court and charm her. Through a plot worthy of Sterbini for Rossini’s music, by hook or by crook, the two brothers remain unaware that they are both in love with the same Talla.

But to better cook up the thread of their fate, destiny added the spice of two enemies who are also brothers, Akbari and his big brother Saber, who harass Morteza night and day. The bad thing is that when they discover that Mojtaba is the brother of their unpleasant enemy Morteza, they also turn against him.

The film succeeds in keeping the viewer hooked, because it cannot be said that Talla is unfaithful to a man like Morteza after the way she has just been introduced. That’s why, after the tea break that caused her to miss her date, it’s funny to see Talla not closing the front door when she goes out, so that her lover Mojtaba can peek in; oh, if only it weren’t for the untimely policeman. Saber Khan and Akbari corner the two brothers in an alley, or is it a cistern in Tehran?

The beating is clean, but Morteza accidentally pushes Saber, who falls onto the metal edge of the drinking fountain. The thug bleeds and collapses, and this is where the film reaches its turning point: Mojtaba willingly takes the blame and goes to prison, happy to save his brother from prison, arguing that he is in love, that he will not last there and that he has already been in prison numerous times. He only asks Morteza to go to the park at 12 o’clock to tell the woman he loves.

However, Akberi, with his knife, challenges Morteza and he never makes it to the park in time to meet the woman who has dazzled his brother and who is the same woman his grandmother has found and arranged for him to marry. The wedding takes place and Mojtaba remains in prison. Saber is saved but will never be able to have children and swears revenge. When Mojtaba leaves and wants to surprise Morteza, it is Mojtaba who gets the surprise when he sees his brother and Talla in the park, deeply in love and kissing. A feeling of uncontrollable anger assails him, to the point of accepting the proposal of the two thugs to ambush Morteza. Mojtaba pretends to be happy to have been released and to have found his brother again, and with deceit he leads him to the place where they are waiting to beat him to death, but Talla, who had never seen Mojtaba again, does not understand until it is too late that it was all a misunderstanding. Mojtaba stabs Akbari and Saber stabs Mojtaba. Tragic death.