Pasha Shahed, a typical seventeen-year-old boy in a middle-class neighborhood in Iran in 1973, falls in love with his beautiful neighbor Zari even though he knows she has been betrothed since birth to Ramin Sobhi, a committed and much-admired radical, but their lives take a tragic turn when Ramin is arrested and presumably executed by the Shah's secret police, and Zari feels the need to make a personal statement of protest.