Nabat Kurbanova

A city girl from Turkmenistan came to a collective farm to marry her boyfriend. The groom suggested returning to the city to avoid having a wedding according to strict Turkmen customs. The girl refused, wanting to win the approval of the groom’s mother.

...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 by Kuiki and his son Cherkez, run everything in the village. They are turning people against the collective farm, sabotaging the sowing campaign. The Basmachi kill the chairman of the collective farm. Residents of the village rise up to fight. In the battle with the Basmachi, many of them die. Nevertheless, the supporters of the collective farm system are victorious and go out into the field in the spring.

The adventure film tells the story of little Dovran, who lives with his father, a beacon maker, on the banks of the Amu Darya.