A place somewhere in the Caucasus, which, like Chechynia, is constantly plagued by war and skirmishes. During a raid on a village, Russian soldiers - little more than boys themselves - were unable to prevent the death of child killed by a mine. The distraught child's mother shoots the village policeman and is shot herself by the panicking soldiers, who by way of punishment, find themselves posted to a checkpoint in a remote area for thirty days. Altough they don't actually see the enemy - an intermittently active sniper - the soldiers can certainly sense his presence behind every stone, and soon begin to suspect every farmer they encounter. This feature film, shot in a quasi-documentary style, portrays the madness of a war in which everyone suffers- both the Moslem population of the area as well as the Russian soldiers who are sent to serve there.