The film explains the phenomenon of and familiarizes viewers with the destiny of one of the most mysterious personages of the Russian Revolution - Nestor Makhno. The film investigates the reasons for and the consequences of the Vosey-Usa petrol pipe wreck in the Komi Republic in summer 1994. The painter Evgeny Phentisov died on his birthday while taking a train to Tokyo for the opening of his first exhibition. On the first year anniversary of his death, his widow visits his studio and is ordered to quit the premises. Newsreels, some never previously shown, portray Russian athletes at Olympic Games throughout the years.
Olympic champions discuss whether a new Olympic idea is necessary.
A portrait of a music school where deaf children study to sing. A screening of musical and poetical sequences composed by Michael Tariverdiev according to Hemingway texts translated by Andrey Voznessensky. A portrait of the civil rights activist General Peter Grigorenko who even as a red-headed boy had a keen sense of justice and was able to fight for himself and protect others. The history of a Buryat family who live and raise livestock on Olkhon Island of Lake Baikal, including the story of the younger son who has had a crush on a Moscow girl for ten years. A story about Russian documentary film director Pavel Kogan and his wife who moved to Israel late in life.