During the war of 1941-1945, Kyrgyz soldier Kalmurat is taken captive by the Germans and works as a stable boy. After the war, he marries a German nurse named Greta. Helmut (Kalmurat) and his wife Greta move to the village of Rosenberg in Germany. However, he is haunted by nostalgia for his homeland, and every year he sends a letter to his brother in the Kyrgyz SSR. But there is no reply. Finally, after forty-three years, a long — awaited letter arrives from his younger brother. In the letter, his brother calls Helmut (Kalmurat) a traitor to his homeland and writes that it would be better for him to be dead than alive, and that no one is waiting for him. The letter brings death to Helmut. In fact, the letter was written be the KGB of the USSR.