G. Karimov

The events of the film take place in the 50s in one of the most beautiful cities in the world -blessed Bukhara. This is a story about street poets living in abandoned cemeteries, in mosques, on the roofs of houses.

In this heavyhanded political allegory, set in the plains and mountains of Central Asia, a tribe of people led by the fanatical Mavrut (Vladimir Msrian) wanders about in the most desolate parts of this already desolate region in search of a mythical "Land of Happiness." Their quest is hampered by the fact that they must all live a life which is extremely ascetic. One tribeswoman expresses a desire to have a child, but is rebuked by being reminded that she has vowed never to have worldly ties that would distract her from the quest. When she has a child anyway, she and her lover are made to pay for this crime in a horrific way. Despite that, the child becomes a kind of holy mascot for the group, touted by the leader as a kind of savior. They are distressed when the child goes missing one day, only to appear mysteriously on the opposite side of the rapids of a river, beckoning to them.

The head of the border detachment Gamayun arrives in Turkestan to destroy the last large formation of the Basmachi - the gang of Mumin Bek.

From 1917 to the end of the 1980s, Soviet border guards are stationed on the territory of the USSR from the Far East to the western borders.