The film tells about the spiritual crisis that the hero of the film is experiencing, about his search and torment. The film includes the following filming: a winter landscape of a river, the hero of the film at a river cliff, a group of people sitting at a table during a holiday, people are talking (synchronously) in the kitchen, the hero is riding a bus on the Moscow-Riga highway, a view of one of the villages, general view Volokolamsk, the ruins of the monastery.