It’s a story about a man with no name; one who exists and survives on the grassy plains in between Russia and northern Iran; away from civilization.
A small whirlwind drifts across the vast steppe and gradually dissolves, followed by the crawling of a turtle. The montage of these two visual sequences at the beginning of the film metaphorically describes the subject and how the story will be told here. Tales of atmospheric turmoil and moments of calm in and unto itself, of life in the countryside of the Azerbaijani desert, of a pace of life beyond civilization. A camel is born and Old Ulu plays with soap stone figures and tells his son, who he only calls “Steppe Man”, a story. It is the legend of the Steppe Man, who is sitting outside one day in the shade of a rock and tending his herd of camels. A hoopoe bird lands on the rock and transforms into a beautiful young woman. The rest universal truth is in the film.

Director And Producer : Shamil Aliyev
Writer : Vidadi Hasanov
Key Cast : Bahruz Vagifoghlu, Salome Demuria, Vidadi Hasanov, Cavidan Mammadov