A film about the fate and work of the writer Vladimir Makanin. The film was filmed by the writer's wife and daughter, as well as: Anna Latynina, literary critic; Leonid Latynin, writer; Andrei Bitov, writer; Alexei Uchitel, film director; Natalia Ivanova, deputy editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Znamia"; Vladimir Gigoriev, publisher.