The film tells about the storyteller Taisya Pyankova. The daughter of the "enemy of the people", despite the horrors of the orphanage, grew up as a bright and joyful person. Her fate is revealed in conversations with a simple village woman, a blind woman, Vera, and the widow of the famous Siberian writer Nikolai Samokhin, Tatyana. According to the fate of these women, you can study the history of Russia.