A film about the celebration of Independence Day in Yemen - three years of liberation from British rule. Salem Rubeya Ali hosted the military parade; streets of Aden, port, fishermen at sea; salt mining; the village, the peasants plow the land on oxen, the peasant pumps water from the well; irrigation ditch. Soviet specialists are working in construction. Tarim city: architecture, mosques; the sultan's palace; East market; Shiban; Red sea; fishermen catch fish; landscapes.