发生在1264～1269年（1847～1852）间的爱情故事。男主角Atabeg在塔什干市长Azizbeg发动叛乱期间，遵照在Azizbeg手下任职的父亲Yusuf Haji在信中的嘱托，滞留于Marghilan。在父亲当地的故旧邀请的聚会上结识了Mirza Kerim Qutidar，并和他的女儿Kumush Bibi成亲。二人其实之前偶有曾有一面之缘，并互有倾心，这桩 婚事令二人都十分称心如意。但是他们的结合却被另一个也曾参加过那次聚会的人所嫉恨，原来Hamid Bay觊觎Kumush Bibi已久。恼恨之下，他想出一条毒计，诬告Atabeg翁婿二人是Azizbeg通过Yusuf Haji派来的奸细，要在Marghilan策应塔什干的反叛。经过一番周折，也是由于Yusuf Haji对推翻Azizbeg的统治有功，Atabeg得以重获自由返回塔什干。而他的母亲对儿子擅自在外成亲十分不满，于是在塔什干又为他娶了一房妻子。Atabeg和Kumush Bibi的爱情会受到什么样的影响？处在国家内忧外患之下的Atabeg一家又会面对什么样的局面？

A Bolshevik army officer and Uzbek who has been nursed back to health by a young Uzbek woman to whom he is now married, gains responsibility for the local village in 1929. He is urged by comrades in Tashkent to have the local women drop their chadors and veils but he is also told that he should not force this on anyone. His wife declines to take off her veil, so a 14 year old girl steps forward to set the example, over the objections of the local Muslim clergy and most of the village men. After the girl is killed, and the commissar is shot, his wife takes him to the hills to nurse him back to health once again. She begs her husband to leave the village. Instead when he decides to return, she is pressured by her father to continue to wear the veil.