For many years the great Emir of Bukhara has not known happiness - he has lost the taste to delightful khalva, and now life is as sour as a lemon for him. The house of poor pot-maker Shir-Mamed, however, is full of happiness - his little son Hodzha Nasreddin has been born. Rumours have spread about his unusual abilities - maybe he will be able to make the Emir happy again?

Young guys from different social strata, some of whom have a criminal past, are called up to the airborne troops. Sergeant Alexey Burov (Alexey Serebryakov) was appointed commander of a platoon of recruits. It is he who instills in inexperienced "sons" the skills of hand-to-hand combat, mutual assistance and army savvy in the ongoing exercises. And now the day of baptism of fire has come. A unit of paratroopers receives an order to help border guards neutralize a large gang of drug traffickers trying to illegally cross the border...

Considering that Musakov’s Abdulladzhan (1991) was dedicated to Steven Spielberg, we might suggest that these four boys embody nothing more complicated than a conflict of youthful innocence with some ominous threat—the basic workings of E.T. (1982) or War of the Worlds (2005), say. That threat, however, is best understood not through vague nationalism or warmed-over socialism, but through the other reference-point of Abdulladzhan—Tarkovskii’s Stalker (1980). Musakov leaves his boys in a simplified radiance so bright and so overexposed that it no longer looks like the skies of sunny Tashkent, but a disturbing, borderless luminosity to match the flat tonal range of Stalker’s “Zone.” Our Uzbek boys are nowhere in particular; this is a broader domain than anything international.

A biopic of Nadira, outstanding Uzbek poetess and public leader of XIX century, mother of Kokand ruler.

The Cheka officers are conducting an operation to return the gold that the Basmachi plan to exchange for weapons.

From Tashkent to Bukhara go on excursion in the holidays of the pioneers, selected from the best, but for two pioneers Shahir and Vitka this trip is primarily an opportunity to find the treasures of the last Emir of Bukhara, who hid them when the troops of the Red Army approached the city, and the Emir realized that he could not hold Bukhara. In Bukhara our friends are already waiting for their accomplices, the same pioneers Anvar and Gulka, who have a map of the alleged place of the hidden treasures. Upon arriving in Bukhara, the four treasure hunters begin their search for the treasure, finding themselves in funny and absurd situations.