Alexander Galine is one of the most performed playwrights, the author of such well-known plays as "Retro", "Stars in the Morning Sky", "Competition", and many others, as well as films "Casanova's Raincoat", "Photo" and "Victim". For many years his plays have occupied the first place in the list of dramatic bestsellers both in Russian and world theatres. This is the film of the writer's journey to the "scene of action" of his plays and to his destiny, in which the character of Russian life and people is revealed, in a funny and unexpected foreshortening.