A person holds a tray of rice with a strange head singing, he carries it
to a couple and comes in between them as they fight because of their lack of children.
The man hums a contagious melody and walks around the area, petting the head of a person who is
playing an instrument. The area is weird,
it seems like a village-like place. The man carries the plate to what looks like a
makeshift dental clinic and watches as a man pulls out a tooth from a man, the tooth was obviously
decaying so it makes sense to pull it out. An old man rides a carriage with flowers and
thinks about a scenario, but he gets interrupted by his children, including the same one who was
seen during the start of the scene. They stop the man, tie him and bring
him back. His children express how it is a disappointment that their father goes after
another woman right after their mother died. During the evening, a girl sits in her small room,
and a woman and another girl come inside, carrying a white wedding dress. The girl says she hates the
color, but the idea of dancing intrigues her. Her mother tells her to put the dress on and
the girl agrees, only if her mother and sister leave.
Outside, the old man’s children, with their unruly appearance seem to be musicians.
They are told to sing lively songs because the bride is not that keen on getting married.
One of them has to use the restroom, and looks for a spot. While searching, he comes across a
girl singing in her room. He recognizes the tone to be the one he sings as well. He unsurely sings
back and the two smile while humming. Someone calls for her and she goes quiet,
while the musician leaves. He runs back to his brother and hugs all the musicians. Piroz,
the man who hummed tells everyone to sing and play instruments well tonight.
The wedding begins, it is a simple country wedding. Piroz looks for the girl among the
dancing crowd but does not find her there. He does not know that the girl who interested him
is the one who is getting married tonight. Inside the room, the girl gets ready and her
groom comes to see her. She compliments his suit and he tells her that he put it on for her.
She then stares him in the eye and asks if he would do anything for her, he says he would.
She randomly starts humming the same tune she was humming when Piroz saw her,
and asks her groom to sing it for her. He tries to, but it seems there is no
melodic bone in the man’s body, he lets out an offbeat sound that is painful to hear.
The girl laughs out loud, making her groom frown. She tells him he sounds like a donkey! He takes
it as an insult and tells her to watch her mouth because he is her husband now.
She continues laughing hysterically, the man tells her mother to teach her daughter some manners.
Outside, Piroz sings with his brothers. Just then, the bride and groom enter the area,
and Piroz and the girl’s eyes meet. Everyone around her starts calling her a lunatic,
and she lets go of her husband’s hand, walking toward the musician in a daze.
Behind them, the whole event is filled with fights because some guests called the girl crazy.
Piroz and the bride walk towards each other and stare at each other without a single word,
smiling wide at each other crazily as the musicians keep singing an upbeat song,
and while the guests continue fighting and throwing things around.
Someone hits Piroz at the back and he faints. In the next scene is the girl sitting back in her
room with her family members fighting in her room, her groom is holding a gun and tries shooting her,
but they are stopping him. In the end, he does not shoot at her,
but he does take a pair of scissors and cuts the girl's long hair.
She doesn't seem to care, she plays around with her hair.
The next morning, the girl’s groom rides the musician’s cart, and Piroz’s brother
consoles the man, telling him it does not make sense for the girl to be a virgin,
and then suddenly she is about to give birth. It seems to be the reason she is being treated so
horribly. The girl rides a horse attached to the cart, looks at Piroz who is passed out,
and tries to wake him up by humming. It does not work out. The cart stops
in the middle of the field, and the musician bids goodbye and good luck
to the groom, who takes his bride away. Piroz wakes up and immediately asks Hogir,
his brother, for the girl, who is being taken back to her father.
He tells his brother that the girl is the one for him, that he loves her and she loves him.
Hogir tells Piroz that the girl turned out to be impure, but Piroz does not seem to mind,
he lets out a pleasant cry and exclaims that her heart is pure.
His brother gets excited at the idea of Piroz marrying the girl as well, and they go back to
their village to get their father’s blessing before asking her father for marriage.
They quickly go home and untie their father. They tell him that Piroz has
fallen in love with a gazelle. At the news, his father agrees to go
to her house to ask her father for her hand. Meanwhile, the sad groom takes the girl to her
father, and tells him that his daughter has brought him shame, and her father says that
Sumbul is his daughter, and he will be the one to take care of their honor.
The next day, Hogir shaves his brother’s face, getting him ready for the proposal.
He tells the crowd of people that the girl is Seymen Aga’s daughter.
The village people travel happily while singing to the girl’s house.
Meanwhile, at Sumbul’s house, her father drags her to a warehouse and attaches chains to her feet,
leaving her there. Her mother who is still
there asks her who did this to her, and why she soiled their honor, but she does
not understand what her mother is saying. At Seymen Aga’s house, Mirze, the father, and the
village sing, as a way to propose. But the message is not clear, making Seymen snap at the crowd.
Finally, Mirze asks the old man for his daughter’s hand. The man says he understands, it then he
calls his sons over, throwing punches. They go home, beaten and disappointed.
Sumbul, alone in the warehouse with a lot of haystacks plays with her clothes,
the hay, and anything she can find. Mirze sits with his grandchild, and makes him
write a poem about flowers. Hogir comes to him and beckons him over using the name ‘Dilo.’ Dilo is
the name of the person Mirze seems to be in love with. His sons have spent a long time trying to
persuade him that she is either dead, or away. Hogir tells his father that he has brought her
to him, Mirze has tears in his eyes as he kisses his son’s forehead with glee.
Hogir says that Dilo is sick, and he can see her and talk to her, but cannot touch her or
hear her. If he touches her she will die. Mirze goes to the place where Dilo is. It is a
rag doll. But Mirze does not seem to notice. He asks to be left alone with her,
and welcomes her. Piroz watches his father talk to a doll and cry.
He walks away with his shoulders slouching. At night, Piroz walks alone with a candle through
the area, coming across his father, who is playing an instrument in front of ‘Dilo.’
Mirze reads a poem he made himself and continues playing. Piroz sits down beside his father,
asking if he feels relieved. He takes a deep breath and asks what
he will do now that his proposal was rejected. His father tells him to visit the girl and if she
loves him, she will go along with him. He gets up with newfound motivation and as
dusk hits, he rides a motorbike and reaches Sumbul’s house.
He sneakily walks while singing the tune that attached him to her,
in hopes that she will sing back. She hears him and sings back, he finds where her voice is
coming from and climbs on top of the roof. He opens a little window at the top and makes
his presence known. She smiles up at him happily, but tells him to hide when she
hears someone come inside. It is her father and brother.
They are talking about taking her life, and making it seem as if she killed herself.
Piroz accidentally makes a noise, which makes her father leave.
He tells her that they will elope, and that her family cannot do anything to her.
Just then, her brother comes inside with a gun, but gets spooked again,
thinking she is possessed. He tells Seymen Aga about this,
and he takes his family to see if it is true. They see her playing with her own shadow,
and ask to get Kalender, the exorcist from Piroz’s village.
The boy runs back, telling Kalender what will happen, the other people will call
him for an exorcism. Hearing what Piroz did,
Kalender teases him. But back on topic, he seriously proposes a solution.
They will give her a potion that will kill her only for a day, then she will be able to
marry him. Piroz hugs Kalender. Later, he tells Sumbul of the plan,
and after hearing about it, she agrees. At night, Kalender visits Sumbul and says
he will get rid of the demon. He walks inside slowly to the girl
dressed as a bride. She smiles at him while looking at Kalender, who starts to loudly
sing something and gives her a potion. Piroz watches from above, smiling at his gazelle.
Kalender comes outside and scares her family by telling them that she is possessed.
In the warehouse, Sumbul has collapsed, while Piroz sleeps above her on the roof.
The next morning, Sumbul’s mother comes inside and cries over her lifeless body.
The rest of her family arrive and see the bottle of pesticide. Her father mercilessly say that
she deserved it. They go to bury her. Piroz reaches the cemetery later, apparently
because he fell asleep at a crucial time. He desperately sings the tune over all the graves,
not hearing an answer immediately. But after singing for a bit, he finds
her inside one of the graves! They drive back on his motorbike,
her hugging him from behind. Piroz brings her to his father,
who blesses her and calls her his daughter, welcoming her to their family.
Sumbul smiles, now with her lover. A woman comes inside and makes sure Sumbul is here willingly.
She tells the young girl she will bring her clothes, because Sumbul is wearing rags.
They try to kiss, but two times they get interrupted. Finally, alone, Piroz pecks
her lips, taking his jacket off her. The woman comes back inside with clothes,
and helps her change. Turns out, she is Hogir’s wife.
Hogir’s son runs to his father and tells him that he saw Piroz with the girl he wanted to marry.
The men of the village take Piroz to a tent, and express their fear of them getting in trouble,
but Piroz says he could not have let her die. They finally accept what he did and sing to
express their acceptance of their wedding. At night, the wedding is held. The couple
takes their vows and everyone claps for them. Kalender declares them husband and wife.
Kalender then reads an Islamic prayer, Al-Fatiha and everyone says amen.
At night, the couple makes love as some children sit outside and play instruments all night.
The next morning, Hogir has a customer at his clinic, the customer sees Sumbul
and claims that she looks familiar, but Hogir hides it, saying she is Fahri’s daughter.
At first, he doesn't pay attention, but later on, he takes Seymen and his sons
to Sumbul’s grave. They find it empty. This is bad; they now know where Sumbul is!
Mirze plays his instrument by Dilo, who is actually a doll, but he sees an actual
person talking to him, he is hallucinating. He gets close to her and kisses her hand, but
when he looks up, he sees that it is actually a doll. He cries and sobs, walking away from the rag
doll. He cannot believe it, he shakes and takes deep breaths, cursing at his kids for doing this
to him; not realizing the ache in his heart. He comes close to the rag doll again and lights
a match, telling the doll to let him die with her! The small tent burns.
The next morning, Hogir’s son sees the burnt tent, and running to tell his father,
who quickly gets up. Turns out, Mirze did not
burn with the doll, he takes her and rides in the carriage with her. He is delusional,
believing the doll to be his beloved. Mirze carries the doll to a big tree
with two graves and lays it down in a grave, getting into one beside her.
Someone comes to Piroz with the news that Seymen and his men are coming for him.
They will kill the entire village! There are two big problems happening at
the same time. Hogir asks his son, Nedir to check the place where their father has built graves,
believing that he will be there. And he is, he is there, reading a poem
to ‘Dilo’ and gets ready to die with her. Just then, Nedir comes running to his grandpa,
telling him that Seymen and his men are coming. Hearing this, Mirze takes the
doll and rides his carriage back home. Back in the village, the whole community is
distressed, saying that Piroz will get them all eliminated.
Mirze arrives and thinks up a solution. He tells Piroz and Sumbul to take a raft with
everyone while he will distract Seymen. After all the preparations, the son asks his
father to go with them, but the old man is adamant about staying in the empty village with Dilo.
The family cries as they leave the delusional man alone.
They give the old man his kemane, and leave sadly, knowing that Seymen will put him to sleep.