A boy is killed in an aul (Kazakh village). Detective Bekzat wants to end an investigation quickly: a crime perpetrator is already found by local police officers after all. But when a journalist from the city comes, everything falls apart. Now Bekzat must conduct a real investigation, following procedure, for the first…

The action takes place in our days. A young, creative team of Russian and Kazakh TV crews dispatched from Almaty to Afghanistan to film the documentary "In the Footsteps of Alexander of Macedon." Accompany and protect them called Marat Ayumov, a former soldier-internationalist who fought in Afghanistan and wh…

Masked figures with machine guns march into the secondary school in Karatas, take the pupils hostage, and execute one of them. They make no demands. Silent terror is their modus operandi. Seeing as the army will take two days to arrive due to a snowstorm, maths teacher Tazshi decides to assemble his own assault team: h…