The film tells about the experience of teaching the subject "Fine Arts" in secondary schools of Leningrad, about the teachers who teach these lessons. The film uses the following filming: a conversation between teachers of fine arts (synchronously), schoolchildren in fine arts lessons in the classroom, on excursions in the woods, a conversation between a teacher and children (synchronously), a tour of schoolchildren around the city, in the Russian Museum, in the Museum of Ethnography. General view of students' work: drawings, painting on wood, Dymkovo toys, painting on pottery. Making masks by children, participation of children in a puppet show (synchronously). Walking schoolchildren with a teacher in the park in Tsarskoe Selo. Excursion of schoolchildren to the State Hermitage.