In this story of love during wartime that blends comedy, action, and romance a young couple are getting married and are told to come back in a month time. Gunel (Nigar Bahadirqizi) is a daughter of a wealthy city man, and Aliakbar (Ilgar Musayev) is an army officer from a rural region. The couple promises to come back, unaware of the overwhelming forces moving toward them which would shatter their world and alter history. In February 1992, war rages throughout Azerbaijan, but the word on fighting has yet to arrive on the capital Baku, where life continues to follow its own slow and Gunels father is arranging a lavish wedding party for his daughter. While Aliakbar is making his way to his wedding, his countrymen are waiting for promised reinforcements which never come. Aliakbar soon finds himself caught up in the fight field helping his countrymen to escape military offensive. Aliakbar never makes it to his own wedding; but a young boy delivers to his distraught bride the Khoja, family stone ring as she finds out her beloved groom died on the day they were set to marry.