The film is dedicated to Academician M.M. Shemyakin, his wife, Doctor of Science G.P. Kugatova-Shemyakina, and her first husband, First Secretary of the Lithuanian CPSU City Committee, M.B. And at the same time, their fate is inextricably linked with the fate of the country. Personal, state and public in one autobiography, which in fact is this film. Why can't you fix the evil that you've already done? And why is it better not to commit irreversible acts?

The events of the last year of the life of two prominent scientists, the father and mother of the author of the film, throw a new light on the Soviet state terror in the field of biology and genetics. The combination of a love story and a political investigation makes the painting a unique human document. The style of the film and the method of narration are due to the fact that the author is categorically against imaginary objectivity and for the most personal intonation of a witness of those events that only he knows about today, with the help of which real objectivity can still be achieved.