The film tells about the combat path of the Ural Tank Corps from formation to the victorious days in Prague. The focus is on the stories of the volunteers themselves. They were collected in open and private archives, the memories of participants and relatives were recorded. The picture was taken with the support of the administration of the Governor of the Perm Territory.

In 1916, 26-year-old Boris Pasternak came to visit the family of the chemist Boris Zbarsky, who at that time was the manager of the Morozov plants. The impressions from the trip were included in Pasternak's lyrical poems and determined the further creative path of the writer. Perm became the prototype of the city of Yuryatin in the novel Doctor Zhivago.

The film is an understanding of the human, political, economic reasons that led to the creation of the GULAG as a system of forced labor. The authors rely on the experience of the writer Varlam Shalamov and a number of recent works on the history of the country.

In 1994, on the initiative of the Permian rock musician Oleg Novoselov, a charity collection of rock music performers “Songs for Tanya M” was created. Funds from its implementation were used to build a children's oncology center in Perm. Tanya M., Tanya Modina, was among the children who were treated for a terrible disease. Then she was 7 years old, the children were filmed on an amateur camera, and Tanya became the “face from the cover” of the disc. On the anniversary of that charity event, Oleg Novoselov's widow Lena decides to find Tanya, who should be 22 today. And finds in a women's colony, where she got for a robbery.