Elena Uskova is going through a difficult period in her life. Beloved father is sick, the relationship with her husband Roman is cold. When her father dies, her half-sister Natasha, with whom they have not seen for many years, helps Olena to cope with her grief. Gradually life is getting better ...

However, soon Elena will face another blow - she realizes that her husband is betraying her. Roman claims that Lena is wrong. Deer begins to think she's crazy, it comes to a nervous breakdown. Roman calls his wife a psychiatrist, who confirms that due to the stress the poor woman is on the verge of insanity.

One day Elena wakes up from the smell of smoke. The body of her dead husband was found in a car burned down in the yard of the house. Elena is accused of killing Roman, all the evidence against her. Lena finds herself in prison, and she alone knows the truth: she was set up, she did not kill her husband. Now she has to find proof of her innocence at any cost ...

The film tells the story of Nariman Dzhelal, the first deputy chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, activist, and journalist. The story is based on Dzhelal's letters to his relatives, as well as the stories of his relatives and close friends.

The filming was attended by Dzhelal's wife Leviza, his close friends, activists of the Crimean Tatar movement and journalists: Lemar Yunusov, Yusuf Kurkchi, Elmaz Akimova, Zair Smedlyaev, Gulnara Abdulayeva, Alim Aliyev, Bekir Mamut and Shevket Kaibullayev, politicians Ilmi Umerov and Refat Chubarov, lawyer Mykola Polozov. Mustafa Dzhemilev, the leader of the Crimean Tatar people, also recalls Nariman Dzhelal's first steps.

Based on Ivan Bagriany's novel of the same name.

About the terrible years of repression in Ukraine in the 1930s.