Screen adaptation of the story of the same name by Anna Paityk.

The action takes place in the 1920s in Central Asia. Red Army soldier and his prisoner Basmachi rebel get lost in the desert...

The red commander Mirsharapov was sent to fight the Basmachi gang in Khiva. After the fighting, Junaidkhan's gangs are defeated.

...Komsomol member Begench, who served in the army, and his fellow villager Vellek, whom they met in the city, return to the village. The kulaks, led...