Alvi Deniev

The film is about famous Chechen ballet and folk dancer Mahmud Essembayev's life.

1918. North Caucasus, civil war. After the revolutionary upsurge, during which the First Congress of the Peoples of the Terek Region was convened, there was a temporary decline. Denikin's troops were rampaging, and the party went underground, continuing its revolutionary activities. Denikin's troops notice the appearance of the Bolshevik Aslanbek in the city and begin to follow the liaison officer. Soon, the underground committee is arrested. But by this time, the Red Army, having received powerful support from the mountain dwellers and workers, goes on the offensive.

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.

A film about the soviet police's struggle against counter-revolutionary criminal activity in the north Caucasus in the early years of USSR.

The valiant Soviet police are fighting counter-revolutionary banditry, helping the Caucasian poor to follow the difficult road to a bright socialist future.