As a six-year-old girl, she traveled an unthinkable path from occupied Estonia to besieged Moscow. Alone, without parents. How did these children survive, how did they survive? War through the eyes of a child who grows up on the battlefield, but retains everything childish, pure and spontaneous. According to the memoirs of the President of the Russia-Norway Friendship Society, Academician, Professor of VGIK, member of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia Valentina Yakovlevna Orlova.

On July 4, 1819, the first Russian Antarctic expedition under the command of Thaddeus Bellingshausen set off in search of an unknown continent. And almost a century later, on August 14, 1912, the expedition of Georgy Sedov started to the North Pole, who did not know that he was going on his last trip.

The Novgorod Veche Republic is one of the first examples of democratic governance in Russia. Over several centuries of existence, Novgorod democracy has gone through a difficult path from a simple meeting, where disputed issues were resolved with the cries of the townspeople, and even with fists, to a complex elective system of city government. The experience of Novgorod democracy was needed in Russia only five centuries later. But aren't the current elites repeating the same mistakes that once weakened the Novgorod Republic and led it to defeat?

The film is dedicated to one of the most tragic pages of the Great Patriotic War, the history of the feat of the Moscow People's Militia. An expedition to the battlefields near Vyazma, mass graves hidden in the forests of the Smolensk region, stories of historians and search engines, newsreel and photographs from family archives involve us in the events of the autumn of 1941.

Brave travelers overcome the endless spaces of the northern territories. Their path is difficult, icy wind, blizzard, impassable roads. Going to the Arctic Ocean is like overcoming all the difficulties of life. And the local shaman does not want them to reach the goal. He messes up their plans by causing bad weather. The film can be viewed in two ways, realistic and symbolic.

The history of the "Writer's Company", one of the units of the 8th division of the people's militia of Moscow, became an occasion to talk about the relationship between the artist and the authorities. The protagonist of the film is a collective image of the Poet, his remarks are quotations from the works and notes of Soviet writers. The Poet's dialogue with the Author reveals the Poet's attitude to the Soviet reality from admiration for the changes in his country to the rejection of the party command style in the leadership of the creative intelligentsia.