Central Asia after the Civil War. In the desert of Pendzhentsk the gang of Abdullah is rife and rampant there. Demobilized soldier Fyodor Sukhov, who was returning home from war, accidentally found himself on the way of gangsters. He was appointed to escort the freed harem of Abdullah. Comrade Sukhov, Red Army soldier Petrushka, customs officer Vereshchagin and rescued from death Sayid have to fight with the whole, large gang of Abdullah.