The film is dedicated to the life and work of the Soviet artist A. A. Borisov. Places associated with the life and work of A. A. Borisov: the village of Gluboky Ruchey in the Vologda province, where the artist was born, the Solovetsky Monastery, the USSR Academy of Arts in Leningrad, the halls of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum. Photos of A. A. Borisov for different years, including with the participants of the polar expedition to Novaya Zemlya, at exhibitions of his paintings in Paris, London. Drawings, paintings by A. A. Borisov. Photos of teachers A. A. Borisov: artists I. Shishkin, A. Kuindzhi. Landscapes of the Vologda region, the vicinity of Solovki, the Arctic North.