An outstanding poet, student of Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Mykola Vinhranovsky reads excerpts from his teacher's diary, comments on it - thereby emphasizing the tragic fate of the great artist. The film uses a chronicle of the war and post-war years.
The film is dedicated to the historical period of the XI-XIII centuries, the times of Kyivan Rus and the Galician principality.
The film is dedicated to the events of the early eighteenth century, the time of Hetman Ivan Mazepa.
