A fifth-grader Zamanbek lives in a mountainous Kazakh village. He is passionate about Mark Twain's book "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and wants to find a friend like Becky. The school is preparing a production based on this book..

Sixth-grader Tolegen comes from the village to visit his relatives in the city to study at a mathematics school. Having mixed up the address, he ends up in the Rakhmetov family, who mistook him for their distant relative.

The youngest son of the herdsman Yerzhan — the ninth son of Yerkenzhe, goes in search of his father and eight brothers, bewitched by the evil Tasbol into stone idols. By the power of his spirit, Yerkenzhe overcomes the spell of Tasbol and frees his loved ones.