Alexander Traugot is an outstanding St. Petersburg artist, heir to the dynasty of painters "G.A.V. Traugot", a porcelain maker and illustrator of books by Andersen, Nabokov, Bulgakov and Pushkin. He met the war as a 10-year-old child and lived with his mother and father in Leningrad throughout the blockade. The film recreates the atmosphere of the inner circle of the Traugot family.