The stranger is John, an American visiting Kazakhstan as part of an exchange programme for "medical expertise". He meets the local people who lead a free and simple life. With his new friends, John will live through a series of adventures. He spends four very strange days with a friend and colleague. Back at his hotel, John hears that his friend has died in mysterious circumstances, but people say he had in fact been dead for several days.

• Kazakhfilm Studios
• Kadam
• Darezhan Omirbayev
• Jonathan Goldstein
• Kazym Dzhekibayev
• Kanat Esemtayev