In 1985, student of mechanics, Mohsen and his close friend Homayoun are living in poor economic conditions. They find an Inscription that can travel in time, and Mohsen travels with Antique for 24 years. Mohsen, who encounters new and far-fetched phenomena and there he falls in love with a girl named Homa. Other things happen to Mohsen that he is forced to go back to 1985 and...
A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text -- long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East -- remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show.
