The atmosphere is the east shore of the Caspian Sea (today's Turkmenistan) where the Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov was fighting with the Civil War in Russian Asia for a number of years. After then demobbed and getting hospitalised, he lays off house to connect with his wife, only to be captured up in a desert fight between Basmachi guerrillas along with a Red Army cavalry unit. Even the cavalry unit commander, Rahimov,"convinces" Sukhov to help, temporarily, with the security of abandoned women of this Basmachi guerrilla leader Abdullah's harem. Leaving a new Red Army soldier, Petrukha, to assist Sukhov together with the endeavor, Rahimov along with his cavalry unit lay out to pursue tripping Abdullah.Sukhov and women from Abdullah's harem reunite to your nearby shore community. So on, searching to get a seaway throughout the border, Abdullah and his group arrived at the very same town...