Several people try to take advantage of a little girl's innocence to hustle money her mom gave to her to buy a goldfish with.
A passionate declaration of love for the cinema and poetry of Iran, which also offers a frank view of the precarious situation for critics of the regime and shows the uncompromising daily struggle of Iranian women against their oppression.
Ebrahim, 12, to help the widowed mother, lets herself be exploited by a statuary manufacturer. At school he makes friends with an older boy, an orphan of a father who lost his leg during a bombardment. With his great fortitude he will try to teach his younger friend how to be respected.
