The film tells about the pollution of Lake Baikal by industrial enterprises and about the problems associated with this pollution, and in particular with the death of the seal. The film includes filming: views of Lake Baikal, landscapes of the shores (including in winter) of the lake, underwater filming of a seal, an interview with one of the inspectors of fishery protection (sync.), An inspector on a motor boat sails on the lake, poachers pull out nets with a caught seal , fishermen, standing on the shore, pull nets, unload fish from a boat, an internal view of one of the laboratories, an interview with a senior researcher B.B. Chebonenko (sinhr.), talking about the pollution of the environment of Lake Baikal by industrial enterprises, a view of one of the industrial enterprises on the shore of Lake Baikal and treatment facilities at the enterprise, the inspector of the fish protection digs up the carcasses of the dead seal from under the snow and ice.