A film about the consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. September, 1988. Residents of the villages of Narodichevsky district of Zhytomyr region talk about the health problems of their children, about the ecological situation, about the state's attitude to their problems (sinhr.). A farm worker demonstrates a mutant pig. Agrochemist-radiologist of the Narodichevsky dosimetric station [Persichuk] V.N. measures the level of radiation in the yard of one of the houses, talks about the results (sync.). A barbed wire fence separating a radiation-contaminated village from a "non-contaminated" village. November, 1988. The city of Kiev. Rally of protest against withholding information about the consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (sync.). 1 part. Chronicle footage: 1978. - launch of one of the reactors of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant: engineers in the operating room of the station; a participant in the construction of the station gives an interview (sync.); May 1986 - festive demonstration in the city of iyev; work on the construction of a sarcophagus over the fourth nuclear reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant; a man in a pneumatic suit decontaminates the house; Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR A.P. Lyashko said in his speech about the absence of a threat to human health (sinhr.).