A film-monologue by writer Anastasia Ivanovna Tsvetaeva, sister of Marina Tsvetaeva. Anastasia Ivanovna recalls her childhood: ‘we knew three languages - Russian, French, German’, about the Christmas tree, about her amazing mother, about her father - the famous professor Ivan Vladimirovich Tsvetaeva, about his opening of the Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, about her sister - Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva, about the house in which they lived before the revolution, and which has survived to this day, and she lives in a boarding house for the elderly; about the terrible famine of 1921; about the death of her sister and the search for her grave; about the years spent in the camps. Her friends - translator Tatiana Ivanovna Leshchenko-Sukhomlina and poet Yevgenia Filippovna Kunina - take part in the film.
