Mingrelian principality in the middle of the 19th century. In search of new funds for the construction of the palace, the rulers of the country sell peasant girls to Turkish harems. Such a fate befell Natella, the bride of the peasant boy Jondo, who was imprisoned. Having become one of the wives of the Turkish commander Omer Pasha, who dreams of capturing the Mingrelian principality, she does not stop thinking about her lover. Meanwhile, Jondo is captured by Pasha...