If Not This, Then That

The plot of the film is based on real events that took place in the summer of 1958 on one of the beaches of Absheron, when Tofik Huseynov, a schoolboy from Baku, drowned in the sea while saving drowning children. The film begins before the opening credits: on a deserted beach by the raging sea, a young man, exhausted, pulls drowning girls out of the waves. One, then another, then a third... Then he rushes for the fourth, but drowns with her.

The movie is about relations between mother and her daughter-in-law.

The heroic Koroghlu is a poor youngster who leads a peasants' revolt against the tyrannic Khan.

After the novel of the same name of I.Shykhly. The film is about new intelligenzia in Azerbaijan at the beginning of the 20th century.

The film is about events which has happened with the "Potyomkin" ship.