Immediately prior to the Russian Revolution, a young shepherd Seydo and his girlfriend Zare struggle for their right to a happy love in a Yazidi Kurdish village in Russian Armenia.
Village man Hambo, trying to set up his son Gikor, gives him in service of well-to-do merchant Bazaz Artem. Gikor couldn't find neither cordiality, nor kindness in merchant's house and misses his home. Some envy small bailiff but nobody see his sufferings.
The prince falls in love with an ordinary girl and marries her. Later, when enemies capture the prince, it's his young wife who gets him out of trouble.
Drunkard Garsevan is supposed to bring wine for testing to specialist Poghosyan. On the road he drinks the wine and is picked up by two young men who think that he is a victim of road accident.