The film covers the period from the autumn of 1932, when Svetlana's mother, Nadezhda Sergeevna Alliluyeva, tragically died, to 2008. This is a film about how the relationship between Svetlana and Stalin changed, how it happened that even after the death of the leader, his shadow still pursued her, and she fled through cities and countries. The tape is based on a conversation with Svetlana Alliluyeva. The authors managed to find an 82-year-old woman in one of the American nursing homes, and Svetlana Iosifovna agreed to give a detailed interview.

A German soldier took a huge amount of pictures on the Russian front. These photographs formed the evidence base for his conviction as a Nazi criminal.