A film about the outstanding artist Boris Fedorovich Frantsuzov demonstrates to its viewers how in an incomprehensible, anomalous way an orphan from the small village of Zauichye, having chosen for himself the difficult, thankless profession of an artist, himself, without any support, only with his dedicated work and enormous talent, in a short period of his life was able to break through to the highest to the heights of creativity, to become a modern classic and leave his name in world art and national history, setting an example of an outstanding creative personality, giving the graphics of the 20th century a full-fledged artistic sound.