Today Moscow is experiencing a construction boom. Our capital does not remember such a grand construction since the 30-40s. It was then that Moscow saw wide avenues and highways, high-rise buildings and granite embankments, the scale of which staggers the imagination. Unraveling the extraordinary life story of the architect Vyacheslav Oltarzhevsky, the chief architect of Moscow Sergey Kuznetsov makes a journey through time. Opening archives, looking for forgotten addresses and documents, finding Oltarzhevsky's relatives, he bit by bit adds up the fate of a person.