"He was a nobleman in Poland and a convict in Siberia. He found refuge and glory in the Ussuriysk region. And what he accomplished is an example for future landowners." This inscription, which was on the statue of Mikhail Yankovsky, one of the founders of Vladivostok, has disappeared, just as the great prosperity of the Primorsky lands, as it was during the time of the heroes of the film, father and son Yankovsky, has disappeared. Their destiny has become a prisoner of "big politics"... In 1922 they fled revolutionary Russia and started all over again: a house in Korea, tigers in the Ussuriysk region, ginseng plantations. And in 1945, the arrest by Soviet counterintelligence...
