On a winter evening in 1920, V.I. Lenin (Boris Smirnov) met with A.M. Gorky at E.P. Peshkova's apartment. The damp wood smoked in the "potbelly stove". It was cold. And the two thinkers were having a heart-to-heart talk about the future of Russia. V.I. Lenin seemed to be continuing his argument with Wells. He talks about the role of the artist in the life of society, about his place in the struggle for the future. The pianist Isaiah Dobrovein comes to visit Gorky. Lenin listens to Chopin performed by him, and then Beethoven's "Appassionata"; he is captivated by the power of Beethoven's genius. A car rushes through Moscow at night. Lenin is in the car. Beethoven's music is playing. On the screen is the Kremlin. The banner of the revolution is fluttering over the building of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
