Jamilias husband is off fighting at the front. She spends her days hauling sacks of grain from the threshing floor to the train station in their small village in the Caucasus accompanied by Seit her young brother-in-law & Daniyar a sullen newcomer to the village who has been wounded on the battlefield. Seit observes the beautiful spirited Jamilia spurn mens advances & wince at the dispassionate letters she receives from her husb&. Meanwhile undeterred by Jamilias teasing Daniyar sings as they return each evening from the fields. Soon Jamilia is in love & she & Daniyar elope just as her husband returns.