Mischievous boys, who consider themselves brave horsemen, teach the puppy Julbars to scare everyone. Once, to scare a neighbor girl, they painted the puppy as a tiger, and he caught a cold. Instead of helping their Julbars, the boys decided to take revenge on the girl for her kindness, and she cured the sick puppy. And she had one more friend. He who is kinder is braver, because he is kind!
The Russian revolutionary Bashilov was exiled by the tsarist authorities to Turkestan, to the waterless Hungry steppe. Here he saw the lack of rights, poverty and humiliation of the people. The intimidated dehkans are afraid even to stand up for the little Batyr, the son of Hakim, who raised his hand against the bai. And only Bashilov stands up for the boy and adopts him.