In the Kazakh steppe near the Baikonur cosmodrome, villagers collect space debris that falls from the sky. Iskander, a radio operator nicknamed "Gagarin", finds the French astronaut Julie Mahé unconscious after her capsule crashes down. She has lost her memory, and he passes himself off as her fiancé. The film was directed by the German filmmaker Veit Helmer as a German, Kazakh and Russian co-production; the Uzbek actress Sitora Farmonova plays Nazira.
