Yakutia, the 1930s. Old Mikipper and his wife Oppuos live their days in thick taiga. Cows, hunting, fishing make up the simple everyday life of the old people. Once early in the winter an eagle flies into their garden. The old people dare no drive it away because eagles are sacred. All through the winter they feed the bird so that it does no attack their cattle. Gradually they grow accustomed to e...

Yakut Stepan Beresekov periodically falls into a lethargic sleep. Only a Russian, the son of a priest, Ivan Popov, can distinguish his condition from real death. But Popov is going on a long ethnographic expedition. Stepan decides to follow his savior so as not to be buried alive.

In the utopian village of "Red Star" there is a commotion: elections are coming for the candidates for the head of the settlement. The odious Stepan Stepanych (acting head) calls a meeting to keep his post. After long negotiations, Stepan Stepanovich and his retinue come to a verdict: a technical candidate is needed. Who will be chosen as the main victim of the intrigue of the strong "village-t...

She is an independent, strong woman running her own business and raising a child alone. He is a simple rural horse breeder whose only passion is hunting. And so they met and recognized their first love in each other.

Having quarreled with his father Altan goes to work in the North. He will have to spend a month alone on a deserted island. But soon a neighbor appears. He is old Baibal who has come to the island to spend the last days of his life there. He asks Altan to bury him next to his wife. But the guy finds out that long ago the old man’s daughter went missing. He talks the old man into publishing an ente...