Ilf and Petrov did not live to see their forties. And at the time of unprecedented glory, the creators of "The Twelve Chairs" and "The Golden Calf" felt great in the shadow of their characters. The film "Ilf-Double Exposure" is about that period in the life of the co-authors, when, after "The Twelve Chairs", Ilf became interested in photography, abandoning his work on "The Golden Calf" for a year.