Yamil has always known war. He impatiently waits for it to end because then his father, whom he only knows by his photos and letters, will return. One day mom leaves for a distant city and brings back Oksana, a silent little girl. Mom transmits the father's order: take care of Oksana like his own sister.
Cinematographic adaptation of the short story "The Joy of our home" by Moustai Karim, writer of Soviet classical literature.