The film portrays the life of the legendary Azerbaijani guerrilla of the Second World War Mehdi Huseynzadeh, who fought the Nazi forces in the present-day Italy and Slovenia, hence the film's name On distant shores referring to the Adriatic Sea.
The film is about the first oil-well in the world in the world in the 1920th.
The film is about the rebellion in Ganja in 1919-1920 at the head of Gatir Mammad.
