[4] Set in Abkhazia in the early 1980s, the story follows Rita, a farmer’s daughter from a Caucasus village who runs away from home and falls in with a criminal gang controlling a small coastal town.

As the KGB begins investigating the gang's activities, Arthur is forced to part ways with Rita.

Around this time, a young archaeologist named Andrey arrives in town, falls in love with Rita, and they marry.

[4] According to literary critic Natalia Ivanova, "Iskander's complex, ambiguous, genuinely artistic and socially caring thought was turned into a completely unambiguous action movie".

[6] In 1988, in the December issue of the Cinema Viewer's Companion [ru], film critic Aleksei Erokhin stressed that director Yuri Kara had shot an up-to-date acute social action film about the Soviet mafia and corruption.