A film about the first years of perestroika, about the processes of renewal of Soviet society, about the difficult fates of people. The film was shot with the participation of Zap. Berlin, USA, Japan. 1-9 h. Meeting in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Stalin's concentration camps on Sakhalin. Collection in Moscow of money (donations) for a monument to the victims of repression. 4-7. Memoirs of witnesses about Academician Vavilov N. I. Arrest and death of Vavilov in the Saratov prison. 1943 "Week of Conscience" in Moscow.