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- Sardaana arrives at a village for work as a teacher. She meets a photographer Nyurgun, and he invites her to look at the museum full of spooky items. When Nyurgun is absent, Sardaana falls under the influence of the call of an ancient harp in a locked box. Not realizing what she's doing, Sardaana begins to play on the harp. A vision comes to her, which she doesn't have time to realize.
- Young Altan arrives at an isolated island in the Arctic. There his solitude is interrupted by an old man, Baybal, who asks Altan to bury him beside his wife's grave. Altan decides to help him, to make him want to live yet another day.
- The story is based on real events, a journey of a popular Moscow actor to shoot a film in Yakutia. Through his eyes, we see the mysterious worlds of "Olonkho" culture in the Sakha republic and of the contemporary Yakut film tradition, with all its national uniqueness. In this island of creativity very different people unite to create rather than destroy.
- Every year the Sakha people celebrate the festival of summer - Ysekh. This ethnic holiday celebrates the Aiyy deities and the revival of nature; it embraces ritual prayers, plenty of rich food and koumiss, dancing, folk games, and horse races. Jehegey Aiyy is a serene deity worshiped by people. Jehegey gave horses to humans, and now is the heavenly patron of horse raising. In the majority of recorded songs and legends Jehegey is a male creature, but in some of them it has feminine gender and is called sylgy aiyhyta. According to legends it sometimes appears to people as a loudly neighing light-colored stallion.