Before the Islamic Revolution in Iran, women's lives were strongly determined by two contradictory factors: the traditional patriarchy and the shah's modernisation policies. This film-excerpt collage starts in 1932 – the year the first Iranian film with sound was made – and ends in 1979 revealing how, during this period, women were depicted by generally male film directors.

Taghi and Zari run away from their village to get married in Tehran, away from their disapproving parents. However living in a big city is not as easy as it seems.

Amir is the accountant of a company that is falsely accused of embezzlement, and before his arrest, he kills the chief accountant who is the main culprit...

Agha Rasool, he will go to the pilgrimage of God's house and his daughter will give him a guest to his friend, Enayatollah.

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A little girl with a blind mother accidentally becomes friends with a rich and famous singer who decides to help her.

Mamal Feshfesheh is a pickpocket who is in love with a rich girl named Parvin. Parvin decides to help Mamal to live an honest straight life. Her uncle disapproves of their relationship and ...

A young engineer who is returned home from Europe becomes responsible of taking care of his father's company. But a villain friend of him manages to drag him to gambling and drugs making him to lose his money and his family. Years later the young engineer in an accident helps a rich man and due to that manages to marry his girl and gets back his life and his family once again.

A little brother and sister who sell lottery tickets won one of their tickets and in a situation where the father and two children imagine a peaceful life in the future, the father is killed in a fight and imprisoned. The small family falls and the little brother and sister fall apart. After many adventures that happen to each of them, finally, all three sporadically find each other and start a new life.