The camera follows Artyom Nechepayev, a search volunteer with twenty years of experience, during the spring–summer excavation season in the Belgorod region. At the site where the Kursk defensive operation of 1943 began, his team recovers the remains of a soldier. Who was this man? Can he still be identified? How many others never returned from the war? What does the earth, still bearing the traces of battle, have to say? Through the personal experience of the searcher, the viewer learns not only about excavation techniques, but also about what drives people to return, year after year, in order to restore the names of the fallen.

Folk songs are gradually disappearing from our lives. In Russia there are fewer and fewer of them. This film is about people who preserve and sing the songs of their ancestors. A film about the folklore ensemble "Userd" from the village of Nizhnyaya Pokrovka, Belgorod region.

Kiku is the captain of a ship that will never sail. He builds an English galleon in the courtyard of his own house and dreams of creating a pirate museum. “The main thing is to find your own business and not stop,” the captain says. In spite of everything, he builds his reality, full of hopes and searches.