In 1941, after the British and Russian occupation, this raw film takes place in the Iranian region of Fars, with sporadic flashes of the beauty found in universal works of literature. A soldier from the Darreshour of the valleys miraculously survives a gunshot wound and is healed by a healer from the nomadic Qashqai community. A few days later, a real doctor arrives, Rastan Darreshour, his brother-in-law. He stabilises him, but the doctor causes a stir in the place, which is already off the grid.

The foreign doctor’s fuss is such that one of the worst and most vile bandits in the area, Qobad, accustomed to looting and killing, sends his henchmen to look for the doctor while Rastan is talking to Jan Fadan. Thus speaks fate: if Darreshour had not been wounded, the doctor would not have arrived at the nomadic community; if the doctor had not arrived with Qashqai, the badly wounded villain would not have been taken to have the bullet removed in the chambers of Amir Houshang, leader of the nomads, and he would never have noticed Banou, the Amir’s unmarried daughter, setting aside his faithful wife Narouk.

It is a pity that this film did not edit out parts that distract from the central plot. It was not necessary to dwell on many of the scenes in Shiraz when Ali and Rastan witness the uprisings of many rebels organised by the butcher Naser, in which a British man is killed. Nor was the scene necessary in which Naser kills the snake seller, and so on. Ali, Rastan’s brother, takes revenge with his own hands and, wearing a hood, shoots Naser dead, forcing him to flee back to the Qashqai community.

The leader Anir is no longer cheerful, as he has lost his daughter, who has married the thug Qobad, but to make matters worse, an epidemic is ravaging the village, and Dr Rastan has not visited it before because the local Khan sympathises with Hitker and the Germans. However, when he flees Shiraz, things change, only to find a very different nomadic village.

Ali is up to his old tricks again, trying to shoot Qobad, as he has diverted the course of the river so that the Qashaqai cannot get any water. The problem is that this time he misses, and the villain quickly goes to the village to look for the hooded culprit. Banou’s father, furious, comes out with one of the rifles Reza has just brought him. He shoots Qobad, wounding him, and one of the ruffian’s men shoots and kills the old man. In retaliation, Qobad shoots his henchman and leaves without looking for the person responsible for his death. Banou was her father’s treasure and died of sadness when she left, before the bullet, when she was taken away by Qobad. Nabou was Qobad’s treasure and died because of his own wife Naouk, who could not give him children, and because of Banou, who stabbed him in the back. As the saying goes, those who kill with the sword die by the sword.