Once Upon a Time in Shahabad is about Ali Mubarez, an exiled footballer who is exiled to a place called Shahabad while traveling to Iraq to participate in a training match. He experiences adventures that are the beginning of the story of "Once Upon a Time in Shahabad".

A major's wife is killed in a car accident. He becomes suspicious of her death in the incident and follows up on the case, concluding that a murder has taken place...

A girl named Ghazal who lives abroad and comes to one of the cities of Iran to sell her grandfather's inheritance. When she arrives in the city, she encounters unexpected events until...

Jalal is an old man who, in his youth, experienced amusing and funny incidents on his path to marriage. Every time he went to propose, something would happen that caused the marriage to fall through.

Some friends want to have a party at home, meanwhile a clergyman enters the house.

When embezzlement and betrayal are involved, no one is innocent. Mohsen and Sara are caught in a complex plot, where even Ali and the investigator each tell the truth in a different way.