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An elderly couple confront the ravages of war in their poverty-stricken village.

A young girl informs her father she's been kidnapped and asks him to bring the ransom money. Panicked, her father and brothers go to Tehran to look for her. They are unaware, however, that the girl has in fact eloped with her boyfriend and now spends her time in the company of a band of street musicians. Following the arrest of the band leader and full of the love for her boyfriend, the young girl descends an uncertain path...

Legend has it that if through enchanted music a man is able to transform a thousand and one girls into butterflies, he himself will be able to fly. A man thus starts turning girls into butterflies but, arriving at the one thousand and first, falls in love with her.