A film about second generation directors. These people of the second wave found the strength to enter into an argument with the young and to break through again to themselves young, ready to feel the time again, while agreeing on what had been started.

At the end of 1950, a steamship from Argentina carrying 180 sculptures made of wood, marble, plaster, bronze and even cement with a total weight of about 175 tons landed in Odessa. For the sculptor Stepan Erzya, returning to his homeland was a step into the abyss. Having gone through all the circles, having visited his paradise, the creator again returned to purgatory. What for? What did he expect from a country, from a mother who had treated her son more than once like a stepmother?

For forty-three years now, Kiryak Petrovich Adukanov has been in charge of reindeer herding unit number four. Every year, from March to November, it passes long-trodden routes with reindeer herders. He lives in a reindeer herd, where there are more than two thousand livestock, preserving the traditional way of life of the Evens. With the departure of “patriarchs” like him, both the language of this people and traditions may disappear.

Vasily Barannikov is the last remaining inhabitant of the once-existing Nymylan settlement. Coastal Koryaks, Nymylans, never knew how to swim, but fearlessly went to hunt sea animals. Seal hunting is the basis of their way of life. Vasily's current destiny is memories of his departed wife, grandfather, and happy childhood. But Vasily is not going to leave his native place. He is waiting for the revival of nymylan.

The author's project of the candidate of architecture Irina Korobina "Architect's House" is about the spaces that professional architects create for themselves. The heroes of each film are selected in pairs, the work of our compatriots is presented in parallel with the work of foreign colleagues. A virtual dialogue arises between the characters about creative ideology and about the attitude to ethical issues that arise when they are inevitably introduced into the existing context, whether it be a historical urban environment or a primeval natural landscape.

In 2015, the media reported on unknown frescoes by Rublev, discovered in the Zvenigorod Church of the Assumption on Gorodok, under a layer of 19th-century painting. The film plunges us into the world of those who save, "heal" art monuments of distant eras.