On the edge of Russia, a martial arts expert strives to find a balance between faith and independence.
Hidden in the mountainous republic of Dagestan, Gusein Magomaev runs a famed martial arts school that has produced several European champions, Olympians and the only non-Chinese king of Kung Fu.
Nurturing an array of talent, some 200 children train at the site that provides an escape for the region's disenfranchised youth.
But in a republic with a high concentration of Muslims, outside the school's thick walls a fierce battle for control of the Northern Caucasus is raging between Muslim separatists and the minority Moscow-backed nationalists.
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