The film is about the desire of the small people of the North to preserve their culture. Panorama of the tundra. The first professional teacher of the art department of the national faculty of the Norilsk Musical College Dolgan E. A. Sotnikova, on whose behalf the story is being told. Students of the Dolgan school in the classroom: they draw, girls embroider the Dolgan national clothes with beads, the boys do woodcarving. Types of finished works.