The film is dedicated to our remarkable contemporary from Leningrad-Saint Petersburg, Valentin Elbek. Having finished his professional career as a doctor of the highest category, V. Elbek could have become a venerable pensioner . But in 1991 he began a new life as a public figure, creating a museum and collecting a collection of photographs of the famous Karl Bulla, who was the first to go out into the streets of St. Petersburg with a camera, becoming the founder of the art of photo reporting. The film presents Karl Bulla's work under the headings: urban life; fires, floods; life of the artistic elite; royal officials with comments. The film also presents V. Elbek's activities as a publisher of books and unique projects, such as "Day to Day", dedicated to a photographic portrait of St. Petersburg, made by 200 photographers in 24 hours. In his beloved city of Vsevolozhsk, V. Elbek erected a white-stone church, which the Russian Orthodox Church - and this is the last part of the film - illuminated on the 40th day after his departure for the best of all possible worlds, leaving an eternal fame of himself in our world.
