About the title
In 1940, Chinese composer Xian Xinghai travels to the Soviet Union to write the music for the documentary "Yan'an and the Eighth Route Army." But the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War prevents him from returning home, and he settles in Alma-Ata. There, Xinghai becomes friends with Bakhytzhan Baikadamov, the conductor of the Kazakh Radio Choir.