Saschka is a Kazakh boy. From a proud tribe of nomadic horsemen who planted their yurts at the foot of majestic mountains, he dreams to tame a golden eagle and hunt with him one day, like his father and his father's father. When he comes across a wounded eagle, he keeps it and tries to heal it. A wing hangs miserably, his father is formal: the bird will never be good for anything except to waddle awkwardly in the village and be the laughing stock of the families of hunters. But Saschka persists because it sees much more than that in the eyes of the bird ...