The film is about the civil war in the Zangezur (Syunik) province of Armenia in the early 1920s. The last Dashnak battalions headed by Sparapet Nzhdeh still opposed both the incursion of Red Army and the local Bolshevik partisans.
Rich Nikoghos-agha buys some beef liver for Nerses-akhpar's family. Although months have passed, Nikoghos-agha does not hesitate to remind his "charity" to Nerses-akhpar every time they met.
After becoming a widow at a very young age, Mariam no longer gets married and devotes her whole life to her son, who grows into a spoiled and selfish boy.
After graduating from the institute, one of the two friends of different profiles, Levon, will go to work in the distant mines, and the incumbent Karlen takes the chair of the head, but this does not bring him happiness.
