The oil industry is emerging in Baku. A poor young man named Jalil accidentally becomes the owner of an oilfield site. But unexpected wealth brings him one misfortune after another. His friends turn away from him, and the woman he loves leaves for another. A hero who dreamed of a home will never create a family.
A young man tells the dream he had about running away with the daughter of chief of police to his grandma. People spread and exaggerate rumors as if it was a real story until it reaches to the chief himself.
The film raises the problem of man's relationship to nature, the symbol of which is an old oak tree, protected by a forester from selfish people.
