A young, ambitious and self-confident girl, Zulfiya, is appointed senior assistant at the surgical clinic. She is still an inexperienced doctor, and immediately makes a number of serious mistakes. Realizing the lack of personal professionalism and the limited medical practice, Zulfiya refuses a high position and leaves as an ordinary doctor to the mountainous region of Tajikistan.
The fate of the powerless laborer Yodgor, who became an active builder of a new life in Soviet Tajikistan.
The film portrays with exceptional psychological depth the image of the miser Cory Ishkamba, a disgusting money-grubber and exploiter, a hypocrite and a hypocrite, whose name has become a household name.
