In a small village in the mountains of Chechnya, people's lives are organized like a large family. They enjoy a peaceful summer day together. Such an opportunity rarely presents itself to Chechens, because here history goes round in circles: from an exhausting war that drags on to a short truce and then back to war. Here, they say that one must always be ready to fight. Death has intruded into everyday life. It is the turn of young Shakhman to look death in the eye for the first time and enter the whirlwind of adult life just as one enters the trance of the Zikkr dance. The women silently observe the men busy with the craft of death. They are the guardians of life and hope sealed in the ancient Chechen greeting "Come back free". A poetic documentary film observation.
