Chinese student Chen Yuejue is trying to connect her future with Russia, and Russian photographer and martial arts coach Oleg is trying to become a professor at a Chinese university. Even the construction of the first automobile bridge between Russia and China favors their plans, but at the most unexpected moment everything changes under the onslaught of a global obstacle.

Northern Baikal. The site of the former BAM construction site. Here, behind the fate of the lost generations, the beauty and grandeur of the huge lake is almost invisible.

Aleksey, the lighthouse keeper, lived on the island of Zhuzhmuy for eleven years. Every morning he went into radio contact with Arkady, a lighthouse from Rombak Island. Lighthouses were lit every evening at the lighthouses. All these years they shone regularly, until one day one of them went out.