Having once seen a portrait of the shah dancer Madina Banu, the singer Murad-ali falls in love with a beauty and sets off in search of her. The hero finds himself in the palace of the Shah, and soon becomes convinced of the reciprocity of his feelings. But his appearance becomes known to the Shah. An angry ruler offers him a choice: rejection of his beloved or the burning of both at the stake.
Many centuries ago, the Queen of Gulmalik and its people fought off fierce attacks of the Mongols. I ended metal for arrowheads, and it went gold, a myriad of which rests Kaniyuta cave. In our time, in the 30s, during the excavations in the cave Kaniyuta killed geologist Sokolov. She killed Jawhar, a former local Bai, who did not want to solve the mystery Sokolova cave and found the gold. Later geologist Borodin is organizing a new expedition to the cave Kaniyuta, which Jawhar fall again, much older, but still hates the Soviet government.
