The love story of Tevlet, a revolutionary who escaped from prison, with Urkka, the daughter of a rich peasant in the Chuvash village where he settled.
Based on Nikolay Garin Mikhailovsky's work Zora, which tells about the struggle of Chuvash peasants against the landowners.
The film shows the struggle of the Chuvash people for their rights at the beginning of the 20th century.
