Begaiym Asanakunova

Year 2009. A small town on the shores of Issyk-Kul. Aktan, a schoolboy who dreams of joining the ranks of the National Security Committee, is faced with the injustice of the justice system. A local deputy is ready to do anything to protect his son Alan. Having failed to achieve justice under the law, Aktan and his childhood friend Kuba seize the courthouse with weapons in their hands.

Based on true events, several stories about disempowerment of women, are closely intertwined, affecting to each other's, unfolding against the background of the traditional, patriarchal society of modern-day Kyrgyzstan ultimately result in a series of tragic outcomes. The realities of modern-day Kyrgyzstan, despite the status of a "secular state", are violence, hypocrisy, and widespread infringement of the rights of women who are stay a socially unprotected part of the population. Under the conditions of aggressive propaganda of both patriarchal and radical, religious ideology, the ideas of feminism in Kyrgyzstan are equated with the popularization of LGBTQ communities, are openly criticized and the justice system, in most cases, takes the side of murderers and rapists.

A terrible tragedy occurs in Zamir's family. The eldest daughter Aidai, who blames herself for what happened, falls into depression and begins to suffer from nightmares and hallucinations. After unsuccessful attempts to help her through traditional treatments, Zamir turns to the ginologist Seyit, who is famous for his unusual methods. However, as the dark secrets associated with the mysterious house by the lake are revealed, Seyit realizes that the family's problems are much deeper than he could have imagined.

At the Kyrgyzstan-Kazakhstan border, Aza and Samat work as members of a drug trafficking organization. One day, they run into Nazik, who has narrowly escaped from human traffickers.

In the life of Aydai, there is no one except her younger sister. In order to take care of her, Ayday has to engage in prostitution. But one day she decides to start a new life, and it turns out to be not so easy.