Screen version of Hovhannes Tumanyan's immortal story about the tragic lot of a village boy sent to the city to work for a rich merchant.

Village man Hambo, trying to set up his son Gikor, gives him in service of well-to-do merchant Bazaz Artem. Gikor couldn't find neither cordiality, nor kindness in merchant's house and misses his home. Some envy small bailiff but nobody see his sufferings...—Artak