Hassan is a young, small-town airport security officer living with his mother who needs expensive medication. He is on probation before getting hired, working under the watchful eye of his more senior colleague (Reza). When he learns that she’s late for a refill, he decides to ask for an advance of his salary. At work, Hassan must navigate his duties as an officer and his sense of humanity while faced with difficult choices. When Reza separates a family of a mother and daughter from their grandfather to go through the women’s section, Hassan steps in to help, and offers to take care of the grandfather. Later, he gets in trouble arguing with a passenger about the meaning of art over an ant statue, while the passenger tells him about fungi that infect and control these ants. Meanwhile in the women’s section, the mother and daughter are poorly treated by the women officers, and help a fainting passenger, before returning to collect the grandfather, who has been spending time with Hassan. Hassan is then confronted with a passenger connected to the system, who expects special treatment and offers a red envelope for Hassan’s boss. At his boss's office, Hassan raises the issue, but realizes that the only way of getting the advance for the medicine is to comply with the corrupt cycle. As the dark side of his job becomes more clear, Hassan must decide what matters to him the most, and what cost he is willing to pay. Hassan ends his day in the locker room, and in his reflection in the mirror a pair of antlers emerge from his hair.