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.

Events are happening in WW2. Jabish is a teacher at primary school. His complaining wife drives him mad about not bribing. Then she makes him to cook a soap for making the money. Also other prosesses are shown on the course of the war.

The romantic relationship of the main characters Zaur and Tahmina starts off with passionate affair and leads to many problems in a conservative society. Zaur (Fakhraddin Manafov), who is the son of a prominent and well-to-do professor (Professor Zeynally) falls in love with Tahmina (Meral Konrat), who is a divorced TV anchor admired by many of her colleagues and friends of Zaurs family which causes periodic jealousy on part of Zaur. Zaur is so much in love that he flies to Moscow after Tahmina when shes sent there on an assignment. Zaurs family condemns the relationship and tries to divert Zaur to a family arranged marriage with the daughter (Firangiz) of family friends. Pressure from the society and continuous calls from Zaurs mother (Zarnigar Aghakishiyeva) to Tahmina eventually lead to big problems in their relationship culminating in break up and Tahminas suffering. Zaur listens to the advice of his parents, marries the family friends daughter. Due to heavy drinking, Tahmina experiences problems with her liver and eventually dies during Zaur and Firangizs honeymoon in Istanbul, Turkey. When hes back, his brother-in-law breaks the news to him. Devastated as he is, the final scene of the movie shows Zaur taking out his wifes list of products for grocery shopping and drives on to the market implying the life goes on.

Popularly known by the name of the main character, Mashadi Ibad was based on a musical comedy by composer Uzeyir Hajibeyov and written in the early 1900s. The story is based on the age old-theme of a beautiful young woman (Gulna...

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