The world famous theater director-innovator of the 1920-1940s, who was the first to represent the Soviet theater abroad, faced the regime of Stalin's rule, the ban on his performances, censorship, isolation, anti-cosmopolitanism in the Soviet Union and fought for the right to exist for his independent theater.

The film tells about how and in what conditions the inhabitants of the territories that have experienced the consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant now live, what they hide and what they previously did not dare to loudly declare.