The film tells about the difficult and tragic fate of the former dissident writer Boris Chernykh. The film includes the following filming: rallies of the public in Moscow on Pushkin Square, people in the reception room of the Supreme Court of the USSR, B. Chernykh visiting a friend at a festive table, in the ranks of demonstrators on November 7, at a cemetery in the city of Svobodny near the grave of his parents, working at home at a table , reads a story (synchronously), B. Chernykh with a friend at the dovecote. Views of the city of Svobodny. The movement of trains from the station in Perm. Passengers are sitting in the train carriage. B. Chernykh in the carriage of a passenger train. Types of Irkutsk. B. Chernykh among the staff of the editorial office of the newspaper "Tikhookeansky Komsomolets" in the city of Vladivostok, on the ocean shore. Types of Vladivostok. B. Chernykh in a group of passengers at the Chusovskaya station, in a summer cafe in one of the parks. B. Chernykh's son talks about his father (synchronously). B. Chernykh visiting his son and friends. B. Chernykh's wife - Y. Pushkin talks about her husband (synchronously). Types (external and internal) of the Irkutsk prison. B. Chernykh's trip by bus with his friend Volkov to the location of the colony, where B. Chernykh was serving his term. General view of the territory of the colony. Prisoners on the territory of the colony. B. Chernykh with friends talking with the warden of the colony and among themselves (synchronously). General view of the territory of one of the children's correctional labor institutions. Pupils of the colony in one of the rooms, talking (synchronously).