Naghi Ma'soomi

The story of a ten years old Iranian schoolboy living with his mother and his father in Northern coasts of Iran. The boy helps his father in selling the latter's illegal fishing and helps his mother in shopping for her and bringing home water from a well. The three characters live together in only one room. Their life is austere. The boy eats only bread and milk every day... One day the boy's mother dies.

A young girl and boy meet in one of the northern coastal cities of Iran and soon fall in love with each other. Due to the opposition of those around them, they are separated. Later, the boy finds the girl in one of the southern cities, who has started a new life with another man. He, who is a broken man, goes to his death.