Gulyandan Shutanova

Teenager Mukai spends most of the year in a remote Kyrgyz village with his grandmother while his parents work in a secluded mountain area. At thirteen, he is considered an adult by local standards. Mukai helps adults with logging, visits his father in the mountains, takes his grandmother to Lake Issyk-Kul where she first met Mukai's grandfather, herds horses to the dock, and interacts with city visitors at the lake.

In the film, the theme of children and the elderly, forced to adapt to the new conditions of the perestroika period, sounds shrill. The plot is based on just one day in the life of two teenage brothers and a lonely old woman.