A group of ten years old is getting ready to a sea travel...

Strained relations in a family where father and daughter do not understand each other. A difficult search for mutual understanding between people.

A poetic psychological drama about the adolescence of the Ukrainian-Russian writer Nikolai Gogol filmed for Soviet television at A. Dovzhenko Film Studion in 1988. Based on the short story "Gogol-gimnazist" by Vasili Avenarius.