During Keykhosrow’s reign, the border of Iran and Turan is attacked by wild boars; its people ask the king of Iran for help.
Bijan, a young Iranian hero who’s Rostam’s grandchild, volunteers to fight off the wild boars and intends to leave. His father, Giv, objects but Bijan insists on going. Keykhosrow chooses Gorgin who is an older and more experienced hero but also a trickster to accompany Bijan.
After seven days and seven nights, the two heroes arrived there to eliminate the boars. While Gorgin was resting in a corner, Bijan attacked the boars and killed off all of them.
On their way back to Iran Gorgin begins to tell Bijan of Manijeh’s beauties, Afrasiab’s daughter, and persuades him to go to spend a while at Manijeh’s resort in Turan, Iran’s old enemy, and enjoy her company. Bijan who at first disapproves of this idea, slowly becomes captivated by Gorgin’s descriptions of Manijeh and falls to his trap.
Bijan and Gorgin start for Turan and Bijan get the chance to meet Manijeh; after meeting her, Bijan falls madly in love with her. This fiery love blinds Bijan to the truth and puts him on an unfortunate path.
When it is time to return to Iran, after failing to convince Bijan to stay, Manijeh drugs Bijan unconscious and takes him to her room in Afrasiab’s castle.
In Afrasiab’s castle, the maids take notice of Bijan’s presence, their Iranian enemy, and report to Afrasiab.
Furious, Afrasiab orders Bijan to be captured and hung but as fate decides Bijan is saved from death and thrown in a deep dark well instead.
Manijeh is exiled from her father’s castle and remorseful spends day and night beside the well talking to Bijan.
On the other side, in Iran, Gorgin had returned to Keykhosrow’s castle and given Bijan’s death news in his battle with the boars to the royal court but Giv thinks this Gorgin’s plot and asks the king to find Bijan and return him to Iran.
Using the Cup of Jamshid, the famous orb of divination, Keykhosrow finds Bijan in a dark well in Turan and asks Rostam to set out for Turan to save him. Wearing the cloth of Iranian merchants, Rostam and his companions get to Turan and with the help of Manijeh they attempt to free Bijan at midnight.
The story of Bijan and Manijeh is a famous Iranian mythical story that Ferdowsi, the 11th century poet, wrote down as epic poetry in Shahnameh.
Farhad Hassanzadeh, the selected children and young adult author, has rewritten this story of Shahnameh in prose and recreated it for young adults; a love story, a love between snow and sun.
