The film tells about the history of the family of merchants Abrikosov. The ancestor Stepan Grigoriev perfectly made apricot marshmallow, for which he received the surname Abrikosov. His sons founded the most famous chocolate factory throughout Russia, later renamed Babaevskaya, opened the first maternity hospital in Moscow and gave the name to the village, Vnukovo Airport. What were the representatives of this huge family, and what were the great-great-grandchildren of the famous merchants-philanthropists, we will learn from the film.

The film tells about the amazing life of Hubert Loste, the adopted son of the famous Soviet journalist Mikhail Koltsov and the German journalist Maria Osten in the 30s. A boy from France ended up in the new Soviet world, met writer Maxim Gorky, pilot Valery Chkalov, artist Vladimir Durov. He witnessed the arrests of his adoptive parents, was left an orphan, died tragically in the country of victorious socialism.