When Data Tutaschchia, the outlaw, goes underground, the year is 1885. In Georgia, part of the Russian Empire, the harbingers of the October Revolution are raging, which will ultimately bring independence to the country. Politics is not the concern of the bandit with the magical aura; what drives him are the selfishness and ruthlessness of the people against whom he fights to the blood and threatens to despair. He can always outsmart the authorities. But he has a powerful and clever adversary. In the end, is he smarter than him? Data Tutaschchia, the noble bandit whose homeland is the forests and mountains of Georgia, has become a national hero in his country. The novel, which became a sensational success immediately after its release from 1971 to 1975, was adapted into a film and transformed into a comic; to this day, it is considered the most important novel in Georgian literature.