The action of the film takes place in 1905-07. The main characters are a revolutionary who escaped from Metekhi prison and two brothers who hate each other.
Omar Khani, a head of Zaqatala province, is a despot man: he kidnaps a beautiful married woman for his harem, and then he orders to kill her husband and leaves their children alone.
The old man Leki Amzat lives with his grandchildren, Ajar and Ramazan. Ramazan is a tractor driver. Their friend, Jangir, a Komsomol member, visits the young people. This does not please the merchant Mirza, who wants to marry Ajar. From the warehouse manager of the Soviet farm, Bigai, he learns...
