Erzhan Rustembekow

An affair which starts as a bet between a three girls suddenly become a big love story...

Tanabay is a proud Kazakh war hero and loyal Communist who is pressured into taking a position as a herdsman in a collective farm in the Stalinist era after WWII. The pride and joy of the collective is a beautiful stallion named Gulsary. After Gulsary wins a race, the new commissar of the collective lays claim to the beloved and headstrong horse, which leads to a battle of a wills. Tanabay and Gulsary are both punished and separated for their refusal to bend to the rules of the Stalinist era.

Eighteen-year-old Rustem, unlike his business sister Madina, is lazy and inert, he looks at the world with cold eyes, hiding behind indifference and cruelty to others. Strange girl Miko timidly tries to destroy Rustem's "shell" with a fragile feeling of first love.