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An anthology film comprising two comedy shorts about life in rural Ossetia.

In a high-mountain Ossetian village where archaeological excavations were being carried out, a local schoolboy, Murat, worked part-time. Zaur, Murat's cousin, who was visiting them for the summer holidays, accidentally finds an ancient jug with gold coins at the excavation site and hides it from everyone. In the fall, Murat moved to the city, where he entered college to learn the profession of a mason. Once he stood up for the honor of Lena, a student of the same school...

Follows the fate of Colonel Dzandar's two sons, one joined the Bolsheviks, the other joined the counter-revolutionaries.

A group of amateur climbers is searching in the mountains for a figurine of a golden goddess, the location of which is encrypted in a map. One of the groups disappears, and with it the diaries, which may contain a decoding of the location of the treasure. After some time, the climbing friends meet again at the mountain hotel where they once began their search. As it turned out, someone really doesn’t want the search for the map and the missing climbers to continue...

The man, after a lot of jokes on his side, accuses his wife of giving birth to only girls, but she tells him that the heirs deserve fathers like real men, and leaves, taking daughters with her. Her husband's friends are trying to reconcile them, but the proud mountain woman does not intend to return home.

About the life of a high-mountain village in Checheno-Ingushetia. The heroine of the film is a young teacher Svetlana Smirnova, who came to work at a local school.

After getting robbed and hoodwinked by a trio of criminals, a highlander finds an ingenious way to exact his revenge.

A young agronomist dreams of developing a new early-ripening variety of corn. Despite difficulties and comic situations, he not only succeeds in his plans, he finds his love.

A group of university students goes on an archaeological expedition into the mountains, where they find a rare gold mask.

Zaur is a famous and popular playwright. While working on his new play, which is given to him painfully, he realizes that a turning point has come in his life.

Follows the young collective farm chairman Kazbek, a supporter of the revival of mountain farming.