An old tea-house attendant told a VGIK student about how in the winter of forty-one, when the fascists were approaching Moscow, he was among those who were assigned to guard the train with apples, which the collective farmers of Uzbekistan sent to the front. The old man's story was so touching and entertaining that Anwar doubted the authenticity of the story. The teahouse did not convince the guy and said goodbye to the student. Later, while picking up material from the military chronicle for his film, Anwar saw on the screen the familiar face of a teahouse and fighters guarding frozen apples. Remembering an unsaid episode of the war, the student went to meet his hero...

The movie tells the story of two filmmakers seeking talented people for acting in a musical entitled Maftuningman (Delighted by You). One of the filmmakers travels to different parts of the Uzbek SSR in search of potential actors. Wherever he goes he meets exceptionally talented people and hears about other gifted people in different parts of the country. The actors for the movie were in fact chosen in this way from different parts of Uzbekistan.

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?

Trying to achieve reciprocity from the saleswoman, the store director blames her for the shortage, and then acts as a savior. As a result, she fell into severe depression, becoming disillusioned with people. But a little time will pass and she will meet a naval officer, with whom she will forget the nightmare.

Russian horse breeder Krasin arrives to 30s Kyrgyzstan to open the first Soviet stud farm here and breed a new breed of horses by crossing Don Argamaks and local Karabairs.

Uzbek young man Rustam, a helicopter co-pilot, is participating in the construction of a high-voltage line in the Alps. One day in West Germany, where he was sent on a long business trip, the hero meets Uzbek emigrants. The external well-being of the new friends very soon revealed the catastrophic nature of everyone’s destinies. These meetings contribute to Rustam’s spiritual and civic maturity; the hero rediscovers the necessity and significance of his homeland, where his family and friends have long been waiting for him.

Extraordinary Commissar Pyotr Kobozev arrives in Soviet Turkestan on Lenin's personal order. He will have to quickly and accurately understand the situation and take appropriate measures against the counter-revolutionaries.

Yakov Koreshnikov, a border guard with extensive experience, is leading an operation to detain a group of foreign agents. Back in the 20s, he participated in the liquidation of the Basmachi gang. Then he first met the traitor Abzal. During the Great Patriotic War, Koreshnikov again had to face him. The saboteurs sent to the Turkestan highway area were then destroyed, but Abzal managed to escape. And here is their last meeting...

About the formation of Soviet power in Uzbekistan, the fight against the “Kokand Autonomy” and the Basmachi.

Scheherazade's 1002nd Night...

After a car accident Bakhtiyar took the blame for his wife, who was driving the car. But this did not change the bad relationship between them, his wife went to another, while Bakhtiar recovered in the hospital. After the incident it was difficult for Bakhtiyar to trust people. Only Vera, a school friend of his younger brother, managed to give him hope for love…

“We are all from the same trust,” the old peasant replies to the driller’s foreman when he, justifying himself for the wounds inflicted on the ground, refers to the neighboring trust. “And we have no other.”

The end of the 1920s — the beginning of the 1930s in Kyrgyzstan. Parts of the Red Army are waging an uncompromising struggle with basmachi in Central Asia. The film tells about the formation of the character of the young Kyrgyz hunter Djura, who found himself in a swirling whirlpool of revolutionary events that swept the Pamirs. It shows the hard way from a simple young hunter, entangled in centuries of prejudice, to a conscious, seasoned in many battles with the Basmachi mature fighter, who believed in the great ideas of the revolution.

Zafar and his sister Yuldus live without a mother, and are raised by their grandmother, since their father is a pilot and is constantly on business trips. From one business trip, father brings Zafar as a gift a bear cub. Zafar begins to train a bear cub, dreaming of making him a circus artist, and starts his studies, so his father forces the boy to give the bear cub to a circus...

The red commander Mirsharapov was sent to fight the Basmachi gang in Khiva. After the fighting, Junaidkhan's gangs are defeated.

Two lovers are torn apart by the violence occurring among the feudal lords in early 19th century Tashkent.