During a medical examination, 13-year-old Aslan is humiliated in front of a load of his fellow pupils. The incident unleashes his latent personality disorder. Plagued by self-doubt, he strives for cleanliness and perfection and is obsessed with trying to control everything around him. His compulsion draws Aslan, who lives with his grandmother in a village in Kazakhstan, into increasingly difficult situations. He abhors the way most of his fellow pupils are held in the sway of a criminal scheme, in which Bolat, one of Aslan’s tormentors, is also involved. Bolat blackmails the younger children into paying him protection money; he has nothing but contempt for ostracised Aslan.
| Directing | Emir Baigazin | Director |
| Writing | Emir Baigazin | Writer |
| Production | Anna Katchko | Producer |
| Production | Guillaume de Seille | Producer |
| Production | Benny Drechsel | Co-Producer |
| Production | Rebekka Garrido | Co-Producer |
| Production | Aliya Mendygozhina | Line Producer |
| Production | Michael Reuter | Co-Producer |
| Production | Karsten Stöter | Co-Producer |
| Art | Juliya Levitskaya | Production Design |
| Editing | Emir Baigazin | Editor |
| Camera | Aziz Zhambakiev | Director of Photography |
| Costume & Make-Up | Ulan Nugumanov | Costume Design |
| Production | Adeliya Toguzakova | Casting Director |
| Production | Lyudmila Velitchenko | Casting Director |
| Directing | Damir Tanatov | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Gulbarshin Abuyeva | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Darya Shevtsova | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Kairat Temirgaliyev | Additional Director of Photography |
| Sound | Markus Krohn | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | Sergey Lobanov | Sound Designer |
| Sound | Frédéric Thery | Sound Effects Editor |