Durmishkhan who’s in love with maid Vardua craves to marry her but first he has to free himself from serfdom. To earn some money he agrees to work for rich Osman Agha. He succeeds and becomes rich pretty soon but forgets about Vardua and his promise. Her revenge is merciless: turning herself into a prominent clairvoyant she suggests the local prince that the only way to build the continuously dilapidating wall of the Surami fortress it is needed to sacrifice Durmishkhan’s only son Zurab.