The film tells about the fate of the puppeteer E. V. Berdanosova, who worked on the development of the classical direction in the puppet theater. The film includes the following filming: the grave of E.V. Berdanosova at the Dolgoprudnenskoye cemetery, the interior of E.V. Berdanosova's apartment, a general view of the exhibition hall of the Cultural Center on Petrovsky Lines in Moscow, an exhibition of dolls by E.V. Berdanosova, views of Moscow, landscapes of the Moscow region, interview with granddaughter E. Berdanosova, SV Obraztsov talks about puppet theater (synchronously), fragments of the play "The Golden Cockerel" (synchronously), children in the State Central Puppet Theater visiting the exposition of the theater museum, fragments of the play "Aladdin's Magic Lamp". The film includes footage of the chronicle of the Great Patriotic War, the famine in the Volga region of 1921-1922, the making of dolls in the workshop of S. V. Obraztsov, a fragment of S. Obraztsov's play "Merry Jazz", views of Moscow in the 1930s, post-war Moscow, views of the city of Sverdlovsk during the Great Patriotic War, caring for wounded soldiers in one of the city's hospitals, manufacturing shells for the front at industrial enterprises.