Gennady Tiganov

In the center of the story is the life of the indigenous people of the village Bakhtia at the river Yenisei in the Siberian Taiga. The camera follows the protagonists in the village over a period of a year. The natives, whose daily routines have barely changed over the last centuries, keep living their lives according to their own cultural traditions.

Because of the stepfather of his beloved girl, Makar goes to prison. Tanya leaves home and gets a job at a shipyard.