Guests and hosts of Leo Tolstoy's family estate "Yasnaya Polyana" testify how photographers came to them "to take portraits" of Leo Tolstoy and his household. How did the efforts of the visitors end, and what is an "attack of photographers"? Was the blue blouse in which Tolstoy first appeared in a color photograph by Prokudin-Gorsky blue? The film's creators expressed their appreciation and gratitude to Akira Kurosawa's cinematic masterpiece Rashomon by presenting the same events in Yasnaya Polyana through the eyes of famous contemporaries of the great Russian writer.
