The Seventh Bullet
(Sedmaya Pulya )

Despite the restoration of Soviet power in Central Asia after the Russian Civil War, the Basmachi rebellion is bringing death to peaceful villages. Khairulla, the leader of a band of rebels, is pitted against the local militsiya leader Maxumov. He has only one strategy left ; to give himself up, and try to explain to the people that Khairulla has deceived them, turning the soldiers back to revolution. Later in pursuit of his enemy, he chases Khairulla across a river. He has only one bullet left – the seventh, and he must not miss his target.