"Zhargylchak” (hand mill) has been used for generations by Kyrgyz
nomads. Sitting before their yurts, women turn their hand mills in one
and the same direction. What is grand is not only grain to be turned
into flour, but life that repeats itself, like other traditions such
as bridal kidnapping. The film, narrated from the point of view of the
filmmaker, who is both an insider and outsider, tells the life story
of several women of different generations who have been the object of
bridal kidnapping. Some were traumatized, some wished for it, others
just endured. But the hand mill of life affects everybody, men and
women, even those who attempt to break its cycle.