The main character of the film is Alexei Kuznetsov, the son of writer Anatoly Kuznetsov, who witnessed the horrors of Babi Yar, the Kureniv tragedy and the Holodomor in 1933 and published the novel Babi Yar with scandal. The writer had been hiding abroad for ten years and had died mysteriously a few months before his 50th birthday.

Almost half a century after the resonant emigration of his father, Alexey goes on a journey to places related to his life. Seeks to understand his father, to rethink the difficult life conflicts that have fallen to his lot.