Elderly gamekeeper Heydari's encounter with a group of illegal hunters whilst on patrol ends in tragedy.
Mehdi is madly in love with Goli; he follows her everywhere and, because of jealousy, murders Goli’s fiancée, Amir. Goli in search of Amir is confronted with Mehdi and raped. Mehdi is arrested and convicted, but because of lack of evidence he is released and again begins to hurt Goli.
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.
In one of his daily wanderings, Ghasem Siah, a young jobless guy who leads a street life, runs into a young American tourist girl who is spending her last day in Tehran. Without understanding each other's words, they strike up a friendship and the girl accepts to sleep with him. But Ghasem doesn't have a place of his own and the girl is about to depart by the next morning. Together they set off on the glistening yet hostile streets of modernizing Tehran of the 70s, in a futile search of a corner of intimacy, while time is ticking away....