A story of friendship of two cinema amateurs. The successful theater director Alexander lives in a country house with his wife Yulia and children. A cinema amateur Petrovich comes to their place. He is in love with Yulia, who actedin his first films. Alexander and Petrovich start making fi lms together. It turns out that Alexander has brain cancer. Having known about his friends disease, Petrovich goes to a Bishop to ask for the blessing to die instead of him.