Small provincial town at the end of the 19th century. Barber Hakob is a passionate pigeon-admirer with them finding his peace of mind and filling the dullness of provincial life with poetry. Soon he is forced to choose his pigeon loft or his daughter's happiness.

Having learned about her terrible illness and unavoidable death, Victoria, decides to leave her five-year old daughter in the case of her father-in-law.

Soldier Armenak is given an extraordinary task: to transport an elephant from Germany to the Yerevan Zoo.

Two years after receiving news of his father’s death in WWII a young boy continues to wait for trains from the front. The boy lives with his crippled uncle rather than with his mother, who has remarried and has another child. Then one day the father returns.