A documentary about the histoy and linguistic ties of the finno-ugric and samoyedic peoples. speakers of the kamassian, nenets, khanty, komi, mari, and karelian languages were filmed in their everyday settings in the late 1960s and early 1970s. the footage was shot in altai krai, the nenets okrug, khantia-mansia, uzbekistan, the komi republic, mari el, karelia and estonia.