Atris grows up to take after his tyrannical and cruel grandfather. As he forces his control on the people of the Dahashna village, his childhood sweetheart, Fo'ada refuses to marry him due to his growing brutality. Despite her rejection, Atris asks her father for her hand in marriage.
Atris is the tyrant of the village. His tyranny is challenged when Fuada, the woman he married by force, defiantly opens the waterways shut down by Atris in an act of collective punishment.