Taylak is a kind teacher of geography. People call him "Angel in a tubeteika, a traditional Central Asian skull cap," for his kind caring personality and also because he never parts with his traditional skull cap. One day his mother comes to Almaty to visit him. She decides that it's time her son got married and she starts to look for a bride for Taylak.

Based on the novel by Evgeny Nosov, staged by the Kuibyshev Academic Drama Theatre named after Maxim Gorky. About the inhabitants of a Russian village who went to defend their homeland in the first days of the war.