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Amidst the plains of the Kazakhstan steppes lives a mother and Eldon, the youngest of her five grown-up children. Whilst his four siblings have all married and left home, he and his mother live a simple, traditional existence. However when Eldon announces he has met the love of his life, his mother embarks on a tour of her four other children's homes in search of money for the wedding. As we follow the lovable but demanding mum through the four very different lives, we get a heartwarming family comedy that brilliantly contrasts modern-day and traditional life in Kazakhstan with humor and insight.
This is the story of a young woman, Aiganym, who was born into the Orthodox Kazakh family from the South of Kazakhstan. When she was a student at the college in the capital city of Kazakhstan, she gave birth to a boy. Right after giving birth, her family cursed her and rejected her and her newborn son because she was a single mother. After seven years, Timur, her son, was not able to accomplish his homework assignment “to draw a family tree”. Aiganym decides to return to her parents’ house, so that her son has a big family. Regardless of the fact that each time, she wants to return, her eldest brother beats her up, she keeps on returning home again and again…
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The film contains 13 different short stories about the first sexual experience. This is a mosaic of various feelings, emotions, joys and sufferings of young and not so young heroes. Our heroes are looking for and finding their love in different places: at students' classes, at the workplace, at the club, they get acquainted through their parents. They all crave a real relationship, but not everyone gets what they want.
Nineteen-year-old young man Azat moves from the village to Almaty to work as a bricklayer at a construction site in the brigade of his older brother. But his brother is delayed in the mountains on the construction of another object, and Azat is forced to spend several days alone without housing and money in a big city. One event, in which the young man is a direct participant, will determine his fate.
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