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Kazakhstan. 1954 year. Copper mines. Camps with prisoners who are torn by these mines. Cruelty and sadism of officer-kGB officers, who guard these prisoners. In the center of the plot is an uprising, which naive cons convict, protesting against inhuman treatment of them, against an exhausting working day, against hungry existence. With the help of rebellion, they want to change something in their slavish life. Such idealistic demands of political prisoners cause quite a legitimate reaction from the authorities: the brutal suppression of the uprising and the subsequent terror that the administration brings upon the disobedient, who did not even dream of attacking the system ... The film is based on real events.