Strong-willed Ulbolsyn lives in the town. Her younger sister Ajar finishes school in the Karatas village. Ulbolsyn has big plans for her beloved sister's future — she has saved enough money for Ajar to enroll in a prestigious foreign university. However, when she travels to Karatas to fetch her, she discovers that the girl has been kidnapped by the local healer Urgen, a man respected by the villagers of the aul, with the aim of making her his Tokal — the youngest wife.