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.
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.
