Uktam Lukmanova

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 Red Army soldier Maksud returns with a detachment of the Red Army to his native village. Maksud sees that nothing has changed in the village — just like in the old days, the bai are rampaging, oppressing the people: bek Rahmankul ordered the hanging of two dehkans who plowed the land that the Soviet government gave them. Obsessed with hatred of the new order, Rahmankul asks Sheikh Abbas to give him the treasures of the mosque to arm his gang.

There is a civil war in Turkestan. Many people stood up in arms to defend the young Soviet government. Among them is the young Mayna Khasanova. She devoted her life to the struggle for the ideals of revolution. Mayna, as a girl from a legend, will accomplish a feat, a story about which many generations of Soviet people will betray by word of mouth. The young heroine will be awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Battle.

1925. Soviet power arrives in the remote Karakalpak villages. During this time, the dzhigit Turumbet and the beautiful Jumagul fall in love with each other. However, after the wedding, the young wife leaves her husband’s home, unwilling to accept the Old Testament way of life of her husband's family. Turumbet, who participates in bandit raids, does not immediately understand the revolutionary changes taking place.

About the struggle of Uzbek women against the reactionary clergy in the 1920s.

Villagers Adzhap and Meilis fell in love with each other. However, Adzhap's relatives, who followed old traditions, separated the lovers. Years passed. Adzhap and Meilis met again, and their old feelings were revived. However, Adzhap says goodbye to Meilis forever, so as not to destroy his family...

Beginning of the 1920s. Jantai and the hero Mergen, residents of one of the mountain villages in Uzbekistan, set off for Moscow to order a monument to Lenin from a capital sculptor with the money collected by the people and to bring it back to their village. They are assisted in fulfilling the order by a homeless boy named Grishka, who has joined them in the capital.