The third part of the epic "The Way of the Leader" tell about the student years of Nursultan Nazarbayev, about the most important stages of his personality formation against the background of key events in the history of the country, when the future of Kazakhstan's industry was being built in the steppes.

He is a student, who believes in a true love. He writes short stories. One day he accidentally meets her. She is beautiful, but unpredictable. Not the type he has always dreamed of. She forces into his life, changing everything he was used to, and brings new adventures, which are sometimes painful for him. After sometime, he fells in love with her, but... one day, she disappears from his life, changing his life forever...

The young Kazakh city girl Ainur wrestles with life. Everything and everybody seems to be against her: school, family, her best friend. But Ainur is no push-over. Fighting at school and unhappy at home with her pregnant mother and drunken stepdad, petulant, tomboyish teen Ainur quits high school. She aimlessly bounces around Almaty, the former capital of Kazakhstan, encountering a cross-section of the population as she goes.

The story of young accordionist who lives in a small post-war village on the south of Soviet Kazakhstan.

The story of Jerken, a young stage director, obsessed with his love for and his life with the theater. Something terrible has happened, a girl has been murdered. In Jerken's diary, he deals with four themes: theater, dreams, the woman he loved, and a friend. An investigator shows up and takes the diary with him. He tries to reveal the reasons for this tragedy. The main theme of the film is the quest for inner harmony, for a balance between the human soul and objective reality.

A young man comes home to his Kazakh village after finishing up his stint in the Soviet Army. All that he finds are his old friends drinking, senselessly carousing, tumbling into one violent brawl after another.