The Lake

In our time a small Kyrgyz village on the shore of Lake Issyk-Kul, where our heroes live as neighbors for many years.
Temirkul - a 75-year old lonely history teacher, who in past tragically lost his only daughter, follower of old legends that Kyrgyzs’ since ancient times never eat fish from sacred lake believing that those are souls of ancestors waiting for new incarnation.
His neighbor - Askhat - feeds his family by being a fish poacher, embittered by daily survival.
And 11-year-old poacher's daughter Jyldyz, who feels a deep inner protest against poaching. She is being under deep influence of old man, believes in the legend and doesn't eat fish is like old man too, which causes lack of understanding of her family and peers.
When the wife of an old man suddenly dies, they have a conflict with Askhat. The old teacher doesn’t want to bury his wife according to Muslim traditions.
But Askhat impose by force his will on the old man and takes all the worries about "decent" funeral upon herself.