Plot Summary

The first years of Soviet power. The rich man Uktabi decides to steal his flocks abroad. However, the secret trails in the mountains knows only shepherd Malbagar. So Uktabi giving Malbagar to wife a girl orphan Nurzhamal requires for it to point the way through the mountains. On the way to the border Malbagar, heeding the requests of Nurjamal, who did not want to be his wife, he helps her to escape from the camp of Aktana. The years pass. Nurzhamal, after graduating from medical school, returns to his native village