Spring 1920. The wave of revolution reaches even the most remote corners of Mountainous Karabakh. Red Army detachments take over the power of the local feudal lords and establish new rules and laws there...
At the centre of the film is the fate of Nicat (Rasim Balayev), a young peasant's son who rises from a rank-and-file Red Army soldier to extraordinary commissar of a mountain district, and his dramatic love story with Shahnaz khanim (Tamara Yandiyeva), the daughter of a bey.
