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.
An aging drilling foreman recounts the brutal suppression of an oil workers’ strike in pre-revolutionary Baku.
The film is about dramatic revolutionary events happened in 1918 in Baku.
