Musical film-portrait of the performer of romances Tatyana Ivanovna Leshchenko-Sukhomlina. The singer talks about her youth, spent in New York and Paris, about a difficult fate: returning to Russia, where the heroine was waiting for years in a concentration camp in Vorkuta. The story mentions meetings with famous people: Vsevolod Meyerhold, Nadezhda Vasilievna Plevitskaya, Yulia Brik, etc.