In a village lived an exemplary happy family: the father worked as a collective-farm shepherd in a Cossack settlement in the Kuban, the mother, and their ten-year-old son. The son helped his father in his difficult work and loved his parents dearly.
But at one fine moment the head of the family is framed, and he loses everything: the herd, his job, and respect—ending up in court. Every attempt to prove his innocence ends in failure, and the injured party is offered money instead of restoring his good name—money he refuses.
Once well-off, the family falls apart, and the son, in shock, ends up in an institution for children with intellectual disabilities…