With the shops about to close for the New Year holiday in Tehran, seven-year-old Razieh pleads with her mother to buy a big goldfish she has seen at the pet store. Razieh's brother Ali persuades their mother to give in and, with the family's last bank note in hand, Razieh gleefully sets out to buy her fish. But along the way she meets up with snake charmers, a balloon salesman and a dry-cleaner owner, and loses her money. With the help of her brother, Ali, she desperately tries to retrieve her money, buy the fish, and get home before her parents find out what's happened.