Sherali Abdulkajsov

Dans un village tadjik vit une drole de famille: le pere est veuf et il eleve seul ses deux enfants. Si le fils reste traumatise a jamais par la guerre d'Afghanistan, la fille reve quant a elle de devenir actrice.

The film's protagonist Valera - cheerful guy from Moscow, who at age 19 learned a whole hell of war in Afghanistan, where he lost a leg. Returning from the war, he had no idea what a nightmare for him is just beginning.

More than 50 years back in a stony set of a remote mountainous village somewhere in Tajikistan the lovers called Shams and Mekhri traveled. Mekhri pulled by a transient eclipse broke an oath of marital faithfulness that overnight transformed Sham's existence into a farcical puppet show, leading to a murder of his spouse.

Echoes of the October Revolution finally reach remote Central Asian mountain hamlets.