Berdinazar Annaberdyev

Enver and Dondi love each other. But the girl's father forbids her to go to the city to study. Enver leaves for the city alone. She is being forcibly married off to someone else. Dondi decides to go against her parents' wishes and goes to the city to visit Enver...

A 13-year-old German boy, Robert, (Max Kullman) sets out to try and find his father, who's in Turkmenistan. On his arrival there he meets up with a local boy (Murat Orasov) who agrees to help him, but they are abandoned by their adult guides and must fend for themselves.

The film covers the period from 1903 to the mid-1920s. In the center of the epic narrative is the story of the difficult love of the poor Berda and the daughter of the shepherd Uzuk, who will be freed and made happy by the revolution.