The film progresses along two distinct but interwoven series of events. The first series involves young members of a family who have gathered round their old mother and revive their common childhood memories. the second line focuses on the old woman's preparations for her last journey and her joyous cooperation in arranging for the ceremonies that are to be observed after her death.
Hamid and Mahin are husband and wife and are traveling to the north by their car. But in the way they have an accident with a rural woman. Unlike his wife's disagreement Hamid decides to escape the scene and lives the woman to die but it is only the beginning of his troubles.
Desiderium lyrically charts the hapless loves of a three brother: Majid, they young handicapped brother with a deformed head falls in love with Aghdas, a prostitute hired by his eldest brother Habib to entertain him, not knowing the truth about her profession. Karim, the middle brother is so infatuated with a quail that he almost completely ignores his wife and her emotions. Habib himself is in love with Foroogh, a tailor lady who lives with them, while his sense of responsibility about Majid keeps him from requiting her affections.
When he takes a job as a schoolteacher in a new neighborhood, the hapless intellectual Mr. Hekmati finds that he is a fish out of water.
Hossein Tormozi is a taxi driver, and because of poverty, he is unable to marry his cousin Mahin. One day, Hossein meets a Foreign girl named Maria, who just came to Iran with her sister and sister's husband and got lost. Hossein takes Maria for a trip and takes care of her at her mother's house.
Etemad owns a cabaret in which they smuggle drugs too. Husband of Fariba the singer of the cabaret is getting killed. Now his brother Amir is back from America to find the murderers and get revenge.