Several people decided to go by boat along the waterways for almost 3,000 km, as their ancestors, merchants and entrepreneurs walked along these routes a thousand years ago. The authors for a month and a half watched them and what happened to them during this trip.

When people choose the North, the North makes its own selection. A trip of a cross-cultural multidisciplinary team along historic Russian waterways and portage connections. Portage is overland track between navigable waterways used to transition boats and cargo between them.

At the end of the 80s of the last century, Alexey Yuryevich German created a film school based on the studio of the First and Experimental Film. Sergey Karandashov, a graduate of the workshop, talks about the process of recruiting students, their training, interaction with the master and teachers, their first steps in the profession.

Author's version of the film.

At the turn of the 1980s and 1990s, film director Alexei Yuryevich German created the first film studio, which became famous for the films of young debutant directors, who later became famous masters. The film will tell about how the Master selected talented directors, helped them take the first step and find themselves in the cinema.

TV version of the film.

The realities of Russian reality frighten and do not suit many, therefore, various kinds of teachings that offer a "way out" are becoming more and more popular. A film about voluntary outcasts trying to live by other laws. The events of the film unfold in the village of Petropavlovka, Krasnoyarsk Territory. People of different professions and social status gathered here, united by the desire to gain vitality, to create their own morality and their own values.