Vladikavkaztelefilm

A film about the soviet police's struggle against counter-revolutionary criminal activity in the north Caucasus in the early years of USSR.

In the mountains of Dagestan in the Russian Civil War era, some good and bad people are looking for a hidden treasure. The only problem is that the instructions on where to find it are encrypted in one handwritten copy of Quran, which ends up in the wrong hands.

A group of university students goes on an archaeological expedition into the mountains, where they find a rare gold mask.

The valiant Soviet police are fighting counter-revolutionary banditry, helping the Caucasian poor to follow the difficult road to a bright socialist future.