An old gamekeeper introduces his nine-year-old grandson Tuyak to the surrounding nature. The boy collects books dedicated to the life of animals. And once, together with their grandfather, they were leaving a crane straggling from a flock.

The heroine of the film Karagoz Alimbayeva comes from the village, where she worked as a zoo technician for five years, to the city to enter the veterinary institute. Having brilliantly passed the profile subjects, Karagoz gets a three on the last physics exam and, having failed to get one point, must return to the village.