The story is based on Konstantine Gamsakhurdia's novel and depicts the social and political changes taking place in Soviet Georgia in the 1930s through the line of the main characters: Tarash Emkhvari and Arzakan Zvambaya.

The White Caravan is a 1963 Soviet black-and-white drama directed by Tamaz Meliava and Eldar Shengelaya. It was entered into the 1964 Cannes Film Festival. Eldar Shengelaia and Tamaz Meliava shot their debut film White Caravan (1964) which showed shepards life, difficulties of their everyday routine, dramatism of contradictions between their wishes and alternatives.