Yerken Gubashev

　　父亲去世后，漂亮的Saltanat不得不离开宁静的小村，前往大城市，去与一个富有的男人结婚。她的母亲身在狱中，背负巨债，正等着女儿给她援助。她的童年好友Kuandyk一直忠心地陪在她身边，默默地守护着她。Saltanat很快发现城里的男人并不信守诺言，她的希望也就此落空。Kuandyk尝试通过其他方法来筹钱，但情势反而变得更糟糕。尽管身处逆境，这两个年轻人却不言放弃。

　　Masked figures with machine guns march into the secondary school in Karatas, take the pupils hostage, and execute one of them. They make no demands. Silent terror is their modus operandi. Seeing as the army will take two days to arrive due to a snowstorm, maths teacher Tazshi decides to assemble his own assault team: his ex-wife, the gym teacher, the cowardly school principal, an alcoholic night watchman, the village idiot, and an incompetent chief of police.　　What follows is no traditional action film, but a thriller with snatches of comedy, in which the enemy isn’t hidden behind masks, but is in the minds of the liberators. Before they act, they have to overcome their personal demons. Comparisons to the school hostage-takings in Beslan and Kazan are obvious, yet Karatas – the mythical village where much of director Adilkhan Yerzhanov’s work is set – could be anywhere. It is universally acknowledged that crises bring out people's true natures.