The main characters of the film, Khanum and her husband, together with their whole family, are trying to find their happiness in America. Having saved up money, they leave for a distant country, whether they will be happy there or they are doomed to miss their homeland.

The plot tells the story of the Turkestan Autonomy, the unrest in the Bukhara Emirate, the Tashkent plague uprising, and the Andijan rebellion. The film portrays Behbudi’s interactions with prominent Jadid thinkers and supporters of that era, such as Abdurauf Fitrat, Abdulla Qodiriy, and Ismail Gaspirali. It concludes with Behbudi's sentencing to death.