About the formation of Soviet power in Uzbekistan, the fight against the “Kokand Autonomy” and the Basmachi.

Zafar and his sister Yuldus live without a mother, and are raised by their grandmother, since their father is a pilot and is constantly on business trips. From one business trip, father brings Zafar as a gift a bear cub. Zafar begins to train a bear cub, dreaming of making him a circus artist, and starts his studies, so his father forces the boy to give the bear cub to a circus...

Yakov Koreshnikov, a border guard with extensive experience, is leading an operation to detain a group of foreign agents. Back in the 20s, he participated in the liquidation of the Basmachi gang. Then he first met the traitor Abzal. During the Great Patriotic War, Koreshnikov again had to face him. The saboteurs sent to the Turkestan highway area were then destroyed, but Abzal managed to escape. And here is their last meeting...

The film takes place in an Indian village at the end of the 19th century. Colonial reality, the arbitrariness of the authorities, the slaughter of peasants ...