The film tells about the prisoner of the Stalinist camps, the artist B.A.Smirnov-Rusetsky, whom fate brought together with N. Roerich in the 1920s. The film uses the following filming: B. A. Smirnov-Rusetsky on the seashore with a sketchbook, in the courtyard of the house, in his office, at the station. Paintings by B. A. Smirnov-Rusetsky. BA Smirnov-Rusetsky talks about his life.