The film tells about the director of the Kharkov People's Theater Z.T.Dovzhanskaya. The film includes the following footage: Fragments of the theater performances (one of the performances based on the story by A. Platonov). Fragments of rehearsals. Entrance to the theater building, interiors. ZT Dovzhanskaya talks about her life, about creativity (sinhr.). Actors read poetry at ZT Dovzhanskaya's house. The director is drinking tea with friends in the kitchen. Streets of Kharkov, pedestrians at the traffic lights, traffic on the streets. The film is illustrated with photographs from the personal archive of Z.T. Dovzhanskaya, playbills for the performances.