A film about modern women in the North Caucasus. Climber, scientist, head of the family and young schoolgirls. We learn their stories against the backdrop of a sometimes conflicting clash of tradition and the Islamization of the region.

"I'm very scared that there was an explosion in the subway, people died. I will not forget this day," is written in a child's note at the St. Petersburg metro station, lying among the flowers on an impromptu memorial.

Alevtina is from the city of Serov, in the north of the Sverdlovsk region. By first education, she is an engineer-economist of railway transport. Alevtina dreams of becoming an actress. Standing in front of the admission committee of the theater studio in St. Petersburg, she talks about herself, reads a tragic poem about a dead girl and whirls around in a dance.