The film tells about the exploration and production of gas in the Orenburg region, about the construction of a gas processing plant near the village of Kargala. Orenburg region. Steppe. Butterflies fly over grassy vegetation. A gas fire is burning; in the background is an oil rig. A shepherd on horseback drives a herd of cows. Trucks are driving along the highway; in the background is an oil rig. Gas processing plant construction site; builders, assemblers, welders work. Pipelines on the territory of the plant. Stacks of pipes at a construction site. It's raining. The foreman examines the pipes. Laying pipes with a pipelayer. View of a gas pipeline in a trench. Drillers at work at a drilling rig located at the site of a gas field. Well drilling process. General view of the tower above the gas well. Clouds. An electrician works on a power line pole. Cornfield; leaves of corn sway in the wind. The man sits in the helicopter cockpit. Helicopter in the air. A column of tractors, a mobile drilling rig are moving to a new drilling point. Workers are installing drilling equipment in a new field. Road construction. Hedgehog in the grass. The truck is carrying concrete slabs. Buses, trucks are driving along the highway. Drilling rig on the field. A gas fire is burning. Geologists at work at the site of a gas field.