A work whose extremely trite libretto is rescued by constant flashes of avant-garde cinematography that, from the very first minutes, leave the viewer perplexed with that shot in the alleyway of the miserable Jamal with his wife and daughter, and from whose roof, in the dim moonlight, a cat can be seen jumping.

Practically everyone wants Jamal’s young daughter Shirin, who cares for her sick mother, for themselves. Both those who pretend to be ‘good’, such as Dr. Cyrus, and those who disguise themselves as ‘good’, such as the office worker and nefarious Hussein Agha, who brings thousands of tomans in cash to the failed and indebted father in exchange for the young girl.

Earlier, we see the doctor deceitfully taking Shirin to a secluded spot and, in his hypocrisy, telling Jamal’s daughter: “I brought you here, far away from the controversy and pollution… to the city under a clear sky. I will tell you that I love you and I am ready for anything.”

The young girl, enchanted by infatuation rather than true love, arrives home and finds her father lost in grief at not being able to get the money, and her mother is in a worse state. A short time later, Hussein Agha arrives and offers the 125,000 tomans, which are openly rejected by Jamal, but in the ensuing mutual insults and shoving, Hussein falls out of the window of the house and dies instantly. Jamal hides him, but he doesn’t have time to think of a plan or anything because now Hussein’s men arrive at his home looking for the money, as it is the wages of the workers at the company where Jamal and Hussein are colleagues.

Hussein stole it, but now the thug Reza and his cronies are terrorising Jamal: the most aggressive one, whom we saw at the beginning cutting off his finger in a knife fight, is called Reza. He introduces the other two, one whom they call the youngest kid but who puts on glasses when he kills a cow, and the other is called Aqjalal. When Shirin arrives later with her father, Jamal is dismayed and says, ‘I feel like you’re Hussein’s accomplice. What are you hiding from me?’ ‘Bitter words, yours,’ replies her drunken father. Hours earlier, Jamal had slapped his daughter when she admitted that she liked Dr. Cyrus, even though he was married and, in fact, had an excellent relationship with his wife. Cyrus arrives at the house, and so do the thugs with Reza.

A fight breaks out because Dr. Cyrus demands that they return the money, saying that it does not belong to them but to the workers. During the fight, Jamal’s house catches fire and he is barely carried out, along with his daughter, who appears unconscious. Dr. Cyrus carries her to safety to save her from smoke inhalation. The cat from the beginning wanders around again as the story comes to an end, where the burning house looks grim but also foreshadows something wonderful. The flames flicker with the VHS tape of this film, which was never restored and adds ridiculous but real contrasts to the entire opus.