Who are these people launching astronauts into space? How did they survive in the 90s, when no one needed the cosmodrome and space? When was bread molds smeared with grease in a bakery? When was food cooked on fires in the yards of houses? But the rockets continued to fly. This is a film about personality, a film about a strong man. Unit commander, head of the cosmodrome, colonel, lieutenant general Leonid Timofeevich Baranov. For many years he is also devoted to space.