The year is 1929. The construction of a railway connecting Central Asia and Siberia is in full swing in Kazakhstan. This highway threatens the age-old way of life of the inhabitants of the steppe, where gangs of Basmachi still operate. The heroes of the film are the chief engineer of the Dzhungarov construction site and an elder of a large family, bai Sarybura. The fate of both is developing dramatically, both, each in their own way, are interested in the early completion of the Turksib.
1944. To provide aid to the famine-stricken regions of liberated Donbass, it was decided to drive cattle from Kazakhstan. This story tells how a group of livestock handlers took upon themselves a human and civic duty to undertake a long and extremely difficult journey along the roads of a war that was not yet fully over.
