A young man, Russian by nationality, goes to a Turkmen bride in a remote border village, not knowing that his large family decides to surprise him and also goes to Turkmenistan to meet the bride and her parents. The chain of comic misunderstandings ends with an episode of a skirmish on the border with saboteurs.

In one of the villages, opponents of the Soviet regime - the bai, the mullah and the disguised enemy - the chairman of the collective farm - decide to use the Muslim holiday of Ramadan in order to disrupt work in the cotton fields of the collective farm, and some farmers succumb to the mullah's agitation - they hold fast and cannot work in the field. The individual farmer Timur, the farm laborer, faithfully follows the laws of Ramadan. Timur is an honest and religious person, a hardworking worker who manages both for himself and manages to work both in the mosque and at the bai, dreams of making a pilgrimage to Mecca.

The story of the short but brilliant life of Ergasha Khamraeva, actor and playwright of the Soviet cinema who laid the foundations of the new art in Uzbekistan. The film is dedicated to those who fell during the Great Patriotic War.

On the assistance of the poor of the Uzbek village to the Red Army in the fight against the Basmachi (mid-1920s).