After eleven years spent in solitary confinement for the murder of a policeman, Perahim is released prematurely due to unusually good conduct. He has a son, whom he now wishes to look after. Whilst in prison, Perahim learnt the trade of a carpenter and now wants nothing more than to open his own workshop. But nobody believes him.

Chief Inspector Catran, Perahim’s longtime enemy, distrusts him as much as Bogini, a
former accomplice, does. Perahim tries to avoid them all: his former pals from the underworld, with whom he no longer wants anything to do with; the Police Commissioner, for whom he neither wants to serve as a spy, nor as a decoy; and Rosa, a nightclub singer and former lover, who wants him all to herself. But he doesn’t succeed.