Golden Five

As the islanders prepare to honor a hero of the National Resistance, a woman, an eyewitness to the events, remembers the case of a "ragged" village whose heroism and sacrifice have been overlooked by everyone.

When the Great War begins, English sportsman Cyril Hammersley is thought to be a slacker because he refuses to join the army for pacifistic reasons. His American fiancée, Doris Mathers, knows that he is not a coward, but she questions his patriotism when Sir John Rizzio intimates that Hammersly may be a German spy. During a dinner, Doris sees Captain Walter Byfield of the British War Office pass a cigarette paper packet to Hammersly. After Doris learns that Byfield was shot for spying, Hammersly confesses that he is an agent of the British Secret Service, and gives Doris the packet to hide. When Hammersly is captured and locked in Rizzio's country home, Rizzio visits Doris and sees the packet slip down her stocking to her ankle. After she retrieves it and he grabs it from her, Doris summons Scotland Yard. Rizzio's house is raided, the German spies are captured, Doris releases Hammersly, and the packet, containing an encoded message with plans to blow up London, is recovered.

In 1987 on her wedding night Kali, [Parivash Nazarieh] a girl from Halabche, is waiting for her father, who is supposed to return to attend the wedding after years of being away, but that very night he is killed by Ba'th Party agents after he has gotten close enough to be able to see the wedding from a distance. Government agents attack the wedding party and arrest the young groom, whose name is Mohammad, and take him to an unknown location. Kali looks everywhere for her husband and finds her father's grave in the city of Soleymanieh. In that area the Iraqi army is meeting fierce popular resistance and has also been attacked by Iranian forces. It is forced to retreat and while doing so it bombs the people with chemical weapons. Kali takes refuge in Iran with another group; there she finds her husband Mohammad among some Kurdish resistance forces.

In September 1944, the red army crosses the Danube. Private Ales together with his agricultural horses follows the victory march. A broken wheel of his cart forces Ales to fall behind and look for help in the nearby village. The "odyssey" of the common cavalry soldier begins. He becomes a friend with the Bulgarian peasants. They need to part ways with a hidden sadness and true love.