Afghanistan. February 1989. The last days of the stay of Soviet troops in a foreign country. Home soon, but the war is still going on. And many people wonder: who are you - an invader or a liberator?..
The young shepherd Murad and the beautiful Aigul fell in love with each other. But their happiness was short-lived. The evil Deva took the girl away and imprisoned her in a dungeon along with other women, whose bitter tears turned into silver beads. Murad , along with his friends and Aigul's brother, Aman, must save her.
The film takes place in Turkmenistan during the Second World War. Here, at a small railway siding, chance brings together Zina, whose husband disappeared at the front, Nadya from besieged Leningrad, and locomotive depot driver Andrei, who dreams of the front and the front line. The driver, having fallen in love with Zina, immediately proposes to her. But Zina does not consider herself a widow - and refuses her beloved. After which - to spite the whole world - the hero marries the silent Nadya and soon receives an assignment to the front. While accompanying a train with fuel, Andrei dies during the bombing of a railway junction, never having been to the front.
Bai Kakabai, who fiercely hates the Soviet government, goes abroad with his family and servants. He is followed by the Nurali and Dodur brothers. The younger is in love with the owner's daughter, the elder cannot part with his beloved Akhal-Teke horse, Dik-Ayak. Having wandered through a foreign land, the brothers will find neither happiness nor prosperity there, and they will return home.
