Bolat Gabitov

1944. To provide aid to the famine-stricken regions of liberated Donbass, it was decided to drive cattle from Kazakhstan. This story tells how a group of livestock handlers took upon themselves a human and civic duty to undertake a long and extremely difficult journey along the roads of a war that was not yet fully over.

A historical drama set during the 1929 construction of the Turkestan–Siberian Railway, contrasting modernization with traditional life in the Kazakh steppe.