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.

Nabi who suffers from Epilepsy is hired by Khosrow to follow his fiancé Golrokh in order to find out about the male lover Khosrow presumes she has. Nabi finds out that Golrokh has a suicidal car accident and tries to help her. However he is not aware of the whole truth.

A-Seyd Kazem, the guardian of the neighborhood, is the lover of his sister-in-law, Zinat. He rejects Zinat's suitors, including Teymour, until Davoud, the son of his old friend Jalal, comes to Tehran from Shiraz and becomes interested in Zinat.

Mansour is a troubled student at school. His mother, Shirin, is divorced, and his father, Esmal-Agha, is a Lompan. Afsaneh, Mansour's teacher, becomes interested in the boy and asks Esmal to stop doing wrong things and raise his son.

Mahmoud is the driver of a rich young man named Bahram. Bahram is in love with Maryam, the daughter of Pahlawan Baba, the elder of the neighborhood. But Maryam, who dreams of a better life, is deceived by her friend Giti's words, and after having sex with Bahram, she falls into oblivion.

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...

A child in an orphanage named Maryam thinks that a bar singer named Azar is her real mother, so when a couple decide to adopt her as their child she runs to the singer. However Azar's love life, doesn't fit for being a foster parent.

Nader has an accident due to the conspiracy of his fiancee and his friend and forgets his past. He, who is hospitalized, escapes from the hospital and meets Behjat, who works in one of the northern villages.

A rich man named Sohrabi adopts a little boy named Ali. As an adult, Ali takes over the management of the Sohrabi factory with diligence and perseverance.

Amir kills a young man while robbing his house. Taghi, young man's father who is blind, seeks revenge

Rahmanzadeh and his wife and daughter Maryam and their little son MohammadReza go to the north for fun. Reza Sharifi prepares a villa and tries to get the girl. Maryam is looking for a rich young man named Mehran Bozorgniya; But she takes a poor young man named Ahmad instead. The two fall in love after a while. But Ahmad reveals that he is not Mehran. Maryam leaves Ahmad and accidentally meets Mehran.

Towfigh is a rich man who has a large number of barrels and carts to distribute water, and in order to protect his interests through the exclusive distribution of water, he prevents any attempt by others in this field. But a young man named Moslem stands up to him and tries to compete with him with his small cart.

Maryam, her friend Parvaneh who is a nurse and her cousin Morteza go on a leisure trip to the north of the country. In the hotel where they are staying, Parvaneh meets a rich young man named Bahman who has come to the north with his uncle and his cousin Sharareh.

Amir, a philosophy student, escapes from the hustle and bustle of the big city to go to the village with his parents for a few days. He decides to teach literacy to the children of the village; But there are people in his way who have villas in the village and are against his methods.

Ten people are invited to a hotel in the Iranian desert, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?

Parvin meets a young man named Jalal Agha-Balakhan on the street and takes him to his friend Azar's birthday party. Jalal, who is a mechanic, introduces himself as a engineer Omidvar. Parvin also pretends that his father is a police colonel. Azar is also interested in Jalal; But soon Bahram, Azar's friend, seeing Jalal in the mechanical workshop, doubts Jalal's job and social status and discusses the matter with Azar and Parvin.

After the death of her husband, a woman lives with her son, a cockfighter. An old admirer approaches the woman, but her son is against this new marriage.

1322 Islamic Calendar year; Iran before the constitutional revolution. People have formed a revolutionary committee to fight Khan. Cossack brigades are torturing and executing people, and Sheikh Saleh and his brother Esrafil with the help of an old man named Khajeh Isaa are prepared to fight against Khan and his steward Hollakoo.

Fatemeh and Pouran, two widows, meet each other in the zoo and decide to live together. Later, one becomes a famous singer and the other a servant. Their two daughters grow up and problems begin.

Reza is a poor musician who is wandering the streets. One night he finds a baby and with all the difficulties he decides to brings him up. But when the boy's real father becomes aware that his child is alive he decides to take him back.

Gholam is released from prison and gets involved with Heydar, whose father, Morshed Zaman, was Paralyzed by Gholam . Gholam rapes Heydar's sister Azam in private...

Everyone believes in Morshed, including a young man who is known to be the best friend of Morshed. A young man loves a girl. The girl loses her virginity due to an accident by a bandit. Morshed apparently marries the girl in order to protect her reputation.