Armenia in the Middle Ages ... the desert ... the bell-tower of a half-destroyed church ... Martiros languishes in the desert. His heart strikes out beyond the narrow monastic circle.
The action of the film takes place in a children's colony, where a film is being shot. In the colony, director Manvel Simonyan gets to know the minor prisoner Hovhannes Darbinyan, who was sentenced to prison for stabbing her lover while trying to protect his mother. The director takes upon himself...
The heroine, an employee of the Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, projects the events of her life onto the stories she studies from medieval manuscripts and comes to very instructive conclusions for herself.
