Guram Petriashvili

An author - a passive young man - enters the Soviet-controlled bureaucracy of Georgia attempting to get his novel published only to be neglected and compartmentalized at every turn.

After being sentenced to death by the Bolsheviks, Nazar has conversations in his cell as he awaits execution with the commissar who sentenced him and a priest.

A group of people who happen to be on the same bus try to get home on the New Year's Eve, but their bus is delayed by numerous obstacles, and the tensions grow.

Foreign adventurers arrive in a small town of Georgia on a special mission, but locals hospitality and customs make them forget their goals completely.

The village of Chokhi had decided to marry Shete to a girl from another village, but the bride refused. The offended village people send their women as spies, the men arm themselves and follow them to take revenge. They are accompanied by a writer collects people's stories along the way.