Aitech, a former intelligence officer, returns to the Caucasus, his homeland, and works as a huntsman in the mountains. He persuades his brother to send a nephew Azamat to study in Moscow, where he studied a long time ago, to receive a decent education, but the young man is killed. Suffering from guilt and driven by the desire of all kinds to find and punish the murder, he leaves for the capital. Why did they kill the young man? How did his killer turn from a nice boy into a cruel beast? What should an uncle choose: to act in accordance with the ancient traditions of blood revenge, by law or true to his conscience?