Icon painting workshop of one of the monasteries. The boy is painting an icon. Service in the church. The artist talks about her life, about the reasons that made her start painting, shows her paintings. Canteen and shelter for the homeless. One of the homeless people talks about his life. The head doctor of the shelter for the homeless at the neuropsychiatric boarding school No. 23 in Moscow talks about when the orphanage was opened, what kind of people live in the shelter (synchronously). Singer T. I. Leshchenko-Sukhomlina talks about herself, sings songs (synchronously). Sister of Mercy Valya talks about her work, about the people she helps (synchronously). Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II speaks at the opening of the first school of sisters of mercy at a hospital in Moscow (synchronously). The abbess and novice of one of the monasteries talks about what brought them to the monastery, about the role of the church in human life (synchronously). Nuns during divine services, harvesting potatoes, picking mushrooms. A woman and her daughter are reading the Bible (synchronously).