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The film plot relates the interweaving story of urban and rural elements of Kirghiz reality to which a girl is confronted, how it may seem at first glance, in negative circumstances. However, a discerning eye would notice that what she found is happiness. Kidnapped on the first visit to her fiancé village, situated on the picturesque bank of the Issyk Kul lake, and forced into a loveless and brutal marriage to a shepherd, whom she was constrained to join in the mountains to tend sheep together, she was therefore condemned to a life of misery and suffering. But how sometimes it happens and worse turns in better, the shepherd's noble heart and kindness made her forget about the heartbreaking situation she was involuntarily involved in, and gradually made her fall in love with the man who to her eyes was supposed, at the beginning, to be her jailer rather then her husband. The title of the film, Boz Salkyn or Pure Coolness, refers to the state of her soul that she accepted in the end due to the incredible Kirghiz nature. Nevertheless the tragic plot, the film is made in a humorous and derisive manner whereby the director wanted to emphasise, not without sympathy, his contempt for the outdated Kirghiz rural customs still alive nowadays.