The film documents the large-scale production of opium for pharmaceutical purposes on the previously nomadic lands of Soviet Kyrgyzstan during the 1930s-1960s. Interviews of poppy field workers, former drug dealers, statements of a policeman who worked himself on these fields and a famous doctor, specializing in detoxification, added to archival footage, photographs, and other documents,  all prove that opium plantation in Kyrgyzstan has profound and long-lasting psychological, political, and social repercussions until the present day.