The film is about of village life. After the same name operetta musical comedy.
After the novellette of the same name of M.Ibrahimov. The film is about a man who trusted his subordinates.
Based on a novel by Farman Karimzade, the movie shows the life in an Azerbaijani village under the Soviet rule in 1930s. Here two former "beys" (land owners) are opposing each other. One is loyal to the ideology of the past and can't reconcile himself to the new power, to second rejects the past and accepts the power of the Bolsheviks, believing that it will establish justice.
