Two years after receiving news of his father’s death in WWII a young boy continues to wait for trains from the front. The boy lives with his crippled uncle rather than with his mother, who has remarried and has another child. Then one day the father returns.
An aged man falls in love with a woman refugee from Western Armenia. When his beloved dies because of his daughters, in a fury he destroys his only treasure - apple garden.
A notebook falls into the hands of a young journalist, where he finds memoirs about his grandfather, who died in the civil wars of the early 20s. The writing does not correspond to the family legend woven about the grandfather. The young man tries to restore the truth.
The film presents episodes from Narekatsi's life, as well as prayers, monologues, and personal spiritual reflections. Part of the filming was done in Western Armenia. Instead of the destroyed Narekavank, they found the caves where Narekatsi and other saints once hid.
