Story of the first Komsomol secretary of Turkestan Abdullah Nabiyev.

The Russian revolutionary Bashilov was exiled by the tsarist authorities to Turkestan, to the waterless Hungry steppe. Here he saw the lack of rights, poverty and humiliation of the people. The intimidated dehkans are afraid even to stand up for the little Batyr, the son of Hakim, who raised his hand against the bai. And only Bashilov stands up for the boy and adopts him.

About the fate of Hamza Hakim-zadeh Niyazi, an Uzbek poet, playwright, and public figure.

Despite protests from the engineer Gafur Kayumov, the head of the design bureau, Tursunov, and his accomplices pushed an unfinished cotton-harvesting machine into production. As a result, millions in state funds were wasted.

About the struggle of Uzbek women against the reactionary clergy in the 1920s.

Lenin signs a decree on the establishment of a university in Turkestan.