A young man was born in a small Russian city, but now lives in the Caucasus, in a foreign culture. He works as a mountain guide and enjoys life, but remains a stranger among the people he lives with. He will have to leave his carelessness behind and grow up.
After the divorce Mariyana returns to his native village. With her no one communicates, except for a new neighbor - a mysterious woman in a Muslim scarf.
A teenage girl from a dysfunctional family, whose parents keep an inexpensive roadside cafe, runs away from home. "It's not I who left them, they left me," - so the girl explains her flight.