El juglar errante Ashik Kerib se enamora de la hija de un rico comerciante, pero su padre lo rechaza y lo obliga a vagar por el mundo durante las mil y una noches. Ahora dado por muerto por aquellos a quienes ama, actúa para los pobres y desafortunados en sus viajes por el desierto. Los 'tableaux vivants' visualmente deslumbrantes de Parajanov cuentan la historia romántica de Lermontov, mientras que las canciones populares turcas y azerbaiyanas nos transportan a sus paisajes místicos.
One day, Sona, the widow and mother of three children, turns her attention to the inveterate bachelor Ruben. Since then, an engineer, a jack of all trades and an incorrigible dreamer only thinks about her
Armen is an employee of the State Archive, an irrepressible young man, who is not indifferent to the grief, injustice, and meanness of other's. Armen feels responsible for solving these problems, even though they have no direct bearing on him.
Artyom (Armen Dzhigarkhanyan) is a scientist who buries himself in his work after the woman he loves dies during the war. He is informed of his sweetheart's death by a young woman, and soon love blossoms between the lonely doctor and the emerging beauty. This is the big-screen debut of Margarita Terekhova in the popular film that was seen by over 20 million in the USSR.
