The film is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Russian artist Gennady Ustyugov, whose life, full of deprivation and need, gives rise to masterpieces of figurative painting. The film was shot in St. Petersburg. Shots of the life of the city show the relationship with the plots of the artist's paintings.

Six motorcycle enthusiasts (four motorcyclists, a mechanic and a pilot-instructor) decide to repeat the 50-year-old motor rally route from Sakhalin Island to St. Petersburg. Then hundreds of teams from all over the USSR tried to qualify for participation in this grandiose motorcycle race. The grandfather of one of today's travelers was the head of the Sakhalin team for 67 years, and even a documentary cameraman to boot! The grandson found a black and white film and was inspired to make a sequel.

The most famous painting by Ilya Repin from school textbooks “Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan on November 16, 1581” (another name is “Ivan the Terrible kills his son”) was banned by Emperor Alexander III in 1885, and thus became the first painting censored in the Russian Empire. After 130 years, already in modern Russia, a group of historians and activists turned to the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation with a request to remove the painting from the Tretyakov Gallery. Is there a causal relationship between past and present?