The film is dedicated to M. A. Sholokhov. Chronicle footage of the 1930s - 1940s: views of the village of Vyoshenskaya, M. A. Sholokhov works at his desk, talks with Cossacks and Cossacks, A. Sholokhov is present; MA Sholokhov hunting and fishing, sits with his wife MP Sholokhova on the banks of the Don River, MP Sholokhov cooks fish soup, eat fish soup; MA and MP Sholokhovs on the balcony of their house; MA Sholokhov dictates to MP Sholokhova the pages of the novel "Quiet Don", meets with the pioneers. Chronicle footage of the Second World War: the fighting of artillery, MA Sholokhov in a group of military men walking through the forest; M. A. Sholokhov with I. S. Konev; MI Kalinin presents MA Sholokhov with the Order of the Great Patriotic War, 1st degree. Chronicle footage of the 1950s - 1970s: M.A.Sholokhov speaks at the IV All-Union Conference of Peace Supporters, meets with collective farmers, workers of the Leningrad Kirov and Rostselmash Plant, writers from Great Britain Ch. Snow and P. Johnson, Y. Gagarin , T. Maltsev, A. Sofronov, V. Zakrutkin, S. Bondarchuk, Yu. Nikulin, V. Shukshin, G. Burkov; presentation of the Lenin Prize to MA Sholokhov for the novel Virgin Soil Upturned (June 1960); M. A. Sholokhov in London (September 1960); MA Sholokhov and his wife descend the plane (Berlin, June 1964); trip of M. A. Sholokhov with his wife to Japan; the ceremony of awarding MA Sholokhov with the Nobel Prize (Stockholm, 1965), present: A. Estermeng, King of Sweden Gustav; solemn meeting dedicated to the 65th anniversary of M.A.Sholokhov in the Column Hall of the House of Unions on May 24, 1965, among those present: K. Fedin, N. Tikhonov, A. Kalinin, S. Mikhalkov, P. Neruda, N. Guillen, M Larni, J. Ivashkevich, MA Sholokhov speaks (synchronously); MA Sholokhov walks along the alley, sits on a bench, smokes.