The film is based on the real love story of a girl named Vera. Vera is 20 years old and has Down syndrome. She lives with her grandmother and works as a waitress at the Carlson cafe, where people with disabilities work. There she meets her future boyfriend, Sergei Dementyev. There is great serious love between Vera and Dementyev and even physical intimacy, but no one around them takes their relationship seriously.
Journey into the world of poetic images of Sergey Yesenin, his deep contradictions and spiritual searches. The poet meets eight hypostases of himself on the way of understanding his work, talent and era.
This detective story begins with an article in Ogonyok magazine about Soviet naval officers who were awarded the highest British award, the Order of the Star of the Sea, during World War II. After reading the article, the young heroine of the film named Olga, a resident of a small seaside town, realizes that one of these orders is kept on the mezzanine of her modest apartment, in a shoe box.
