“Purple Years” is the story of a rural boy called Ali studying in fifth grade of elementary school. He gets to know a young cleric named Seyed Rasool who has been sent into exile to their village. There is a gendarmerie inn this village whose chief is an acquaintance of Ali’s father through whose assistance Seyed Rasool, the young cler-ic is accommodated in the only extra room of the village. Ali’s father, Osta Abolhassan is a pious man and be-longs to one of the few local Shiite families in the village and despite others, does not prevent his son's relation-ship with Seyed Rasool and the same relationship and visits gradually introduce Ali into political activities. Ali's father disease a result of disease, so Ali and his family are experiencing financial problems and Ali and his moth-er are forced to work for others. Later Seyed Rasool helps them to move to Tehran and Ali can continue his education there. Then Ali is intro-duced to a political- religious organization by Seyed Rasool learns the methods of underground fight. Then he enters the university, and at the same time works in the bookstore of a religious person. In the university, Ali meets a student girl called Shirin and falls in love with her.

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