Anvar Valiyev

The film consists of several novels reproducing the most vivid pages of the biography of the first Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of Azerbaijan Nariman Narimanov (1870-1925).

Habil is a simple workshop worker. One day, his neighbor, lawyer Rustam, sets a trap for him and Habil is arrested. However, justice finds its place. The slander that is thrown finds its owner.

Oruj Zeynalov is a psychiatrist. He has a secure life, a son studying in Moscow, his wife Pakiza who loves him more than life, his mistress, nurse Ophelia, friends, and a charming garden. His life passes peacefully against the background of what we have listed, but until a certain time, or rather until the appearance of Balami, who wants to name the garden after himself...

War breaks out in the Caucasus. 75-year-old Maria loses her son in the war. She and her daughter-in-law Sofia have been living in the Caucasus for 12 years. When famine strikes, they want to move to Russia. The women decide that they must go to Moscow. Maria takes her little dog and Sofia her small suitcase, gets on the train and sets off. In the next compartment, photojournalist Alexander is also traveling. Sofia and Alexander love each other. Maria realizes at one of the stations near Volgograd that she cannot live without the Caucasus. She writes a letter to Sofia and leaves the train with her dog...