Four geologists are searching for diamonds in the wilderness of Siberia. After a long and tiresome journey they manage to find their luck and put the diamond mine on the map. The map must be delivered back to Moscow. But on the day of their departure a terrible forest fire wreaks havoc, and the geologists get trapped in the woods.
An unexpected romance occurs for a female Red Army sniper and a White Army officer.
Based on Emilian Bukov's fairy tale of the same name about the hero of Moldovan fairy tales, the shepherd boy Andries, who dreamed of becoming a knight, about the magic flute that was once given to him by the fairy-tale hero Vainovan, and about the struggle against the evil wizard Black Whirlwind, who hated all living things.
