Follows the young collective farm chairman Kazbek, a supporter of the revival of mountain farming.
About the life of a high-mountain village in Checheno-Ingushetia. The heroine of the film is a young teacher Svetlana Smirnova, who came to work at a local school.
After getting robbed and hoodwinked by a trio of criminals, a highlander finds an ingenious way to exact his revenge.
