The film introduces the experience of educators-innovators in the upbringing of children of different ages. Shown are the families of B.P. and E.A. Nikitin and their followers, the theater studio of director V. Spesivtsev, the Chaika plant, where schoolchildren take up jobs and the lesson of a wonderful master of their craft, teacher of literature E. N. Ilyin. All shooting, without exception: at school, at the factory, in the theater and in families, was made with a hidden camera and is event-driven.