Dude Dzneladze

Maro is sentenced to prison for participating in the workers' unrest, his orphaned boy is adopted by a rich manufacturer. Years later, Maro learns that the prosecutor Mamulov, who is trying Maro's fellow revolutionaries, is his lost son. Maro asks him to lighten the sentence, but the prosecutor does not recognize the woman as his mother and throws him out of the house. At the trial, during the announcement of the death sentence, Maro will kill his son with a revolver.

Omar Khani, a head of Zaqatala province, is a despot man: he kidnaps a beautiful married woman for his harem, and then he orders to kill her husband and leaves their children alone.

The story takes place in the mountains of Tusheti (Northeast Georgia) where a shepherd refuses to obey his rich and influential master.

Movie takes place in 1841 Georgia region of Guria, in where peasants are plotting the uprising against the Russian government.