Taylak is a kind teacher of geography. People call him "Angel in a tubeteika, a traditional Central Asian skull cap," for his kind caring personality and also because he never parts with his traditional skull cap. One day his mother comes to Almaty to visit him. She decides that it's time her son got married and she starts to look for a bride for Taylak.

A family saga about ordinary residents of Alma-Ata in a difficult period of the 90s. Family stories echo the history of the country. The modest life of yesterday's state employees and luxury apartments of new Russians and Kazakhs. How to get used to a new life without losing humanity?

Story of a rough little boy in Kazakh society in the last years of the USSR, owes something to the Italian neo realist movement of the 1940s.

Fate did not particularly favor old Myrzagali, and he did not like people. But he cherished his white camel, Ariana, and doted on her. And when he got sick and went to the hospital, Ariana cut the veins of her eyes so that she would accept a local male and no longer look towards the white mountains. After giving birth, Ariana finally went blind. And when the little camel got stronger, she ran with him towards the wind. Myrzagali did not restrain the animals...

An epic drama about the life, love and creativity of the Kazakh poet Abai (1845-1904), an educator, thinker and politician of the 19th century.

About the fight against poaching in the camel-breeding state farm. The young worker Daut returned with his family from the city to his native land. It was difficult at first in the steppe without water, gas, light. Suddenly, the local driver Askerbek came to the rescue, who got the engine to Daut. Now the yurt has become cozy and warm. But soon the newcomer realized that this service was not selfless...

Sixth-grader Tolegen comes from the village to visit his relatives in the city to study at a mathematics school. Having mixed up the address, he ends up in the Rakhmetov family, who mistook him for their distant relative.

Thirty years after war's end a man in Kazakhstan contacts an old Russian woman to say he is her long-lost son.

The fate of three friends - Akim, Aigul and Bolat after graduation...

The young people fell in love with each other and decided to get married. The month they were given to reflect helped the characters to look at themselves and others in a new way, to test their feelings.

Fifth-grader Murat Batyrbaev grew up like a mama's boy, was often sick, was weak and indecisive. At school he got straight C grades and avoided physical education classes. One day, while skipping another lesson, he met a new student in the class, whose father was appointed a physical education teacher at their school. The friendship between Murat and Zhenard helps the boy to believe in himself, overcome his fears, enroll in the boxing section and win school competitions...