Sharof Boshbekov and “Temir xotin”

In a village yard the tractor driver Qo‘chqor is tied to a pillar: because he made a drunken row the night before, neighbours together with his wife Qumri tied him up, and the village elders told her not to untie him until noon. Qumri takes the children and goes to her mother’s. Meanwhile the scientist Olimjon brings a robot in a crate – “Alomat–I”: instead of a cotton-picking machine he has built a human-like female robot whose character changes with microcircuits. Qo‘chqor wants her to help with housework, Olimjon objects that she is an untested machine and leaves for the office in annoyance; Qo‘chqor takes this as permission and switches the robot on. Two days later Alomat does the housework, but Qo‘chqor notices that Qumri understood him by a glance of her eyes, which the robot cannot. Under hypnosis Alomat names the real troubles of Qo‘chqor’s life and makes him cry. On the third day, when Qumri comes back, Olimjon announces that Alomat has burned out in the field and accuses Qo‘chqor of working her to death; Qo‘chqor thinks that the robot did not even do half of what an Uzbek woman does. As the curtain falls the song “Yana o‘ynaylik...” is heard.