After finishing school, three friends go to Chiatura for work. Two of them start working in a black stone mine, and the third, Bondo, works as a driver in a lumber yard. Friends' paths divide here. With the advice of the warehouse manager, Bondo gets used to easy income and does not shy away from dark affairs.
A childless family adopts a child to raise. The husband takes good care of the baby, but his wife tries to avoid the responsibilities of the mother and finally, taking advantage of her husband's absence, she takes the baby back. In the second family, the situation is the opposite - Lia wants to adopt a baby, but her careless husband prevents her.
Georgia of the 1920s. An honest, charming, but naive fisherman Lado helps all those in need. And they benefit from his kindness, first of all the miller Stephen, a greedy person, but times are changing and people like Stephen have no future.
Bombora roams the streets, frightening citizens and constantly breaking lanterns. As a result, the lamplighter Sao becomes so enraged that he decides to leave the city. In the darkened city, chaos ensues; people can’t see anything and are colliding with one another, while no one is left to light the lanterns.