A film about artists and various manifestations of the youth counterculture that took shape during the years of "stagnation". An ensemble is playing in the cinema hall. People look at the products of the merchants on the street: rugs, paintings, tapestries. Katya Medvedeva with her painting on the street, at work in the studio, talks about how she began to paint (synchronously). Paintings. Reproductions. The artist draws on the Arbat. Matryoshka dolls with the faces of Gorbachev, Khrushchev, Stalin, Lenin. Pictures of the artist Bazylenko. Sculptures, copies of paintings by famous artists. Interview with singer A. Minashkin about the role of music and painting in his life.