The film tells how Dilara, Ismail's stepmother, manages to win the love of her stepson, for which they both had to go through a difficult test.
[1] In one of the Azerbaijani villages where young Ismail (played by Jeyhun Mirzayev) lives, his father brings his wife Dilara (played by Najiba Malikova), who works as a doctor, and her daughter Jamila, Ismail's same age and half-sister.
Ismail's opinion about his stepmother begins to change when he sees how she saved the life of a seriously ill man.
During another children's fun - a game of racing - Ismail invites Jamila to cross the river, and the girl, having fallen into the water, catches a severe cold.
But then he recalls how his grandmother (played by Hagigat Rzayeva) treated him, giving him tea from a wild rose growing in the mountains.