The elderly writer Rishat, who has achieved recognition, feels an imminent death and increasingly begins to remember his roots and goes to his small homeland and dedicates a new novel to her. The hero's son, Amir, a young successful Kazan film director, does not understand the strict and wayward father, who, in his opinion, "lives in the past", but wants to get at least some approval from him.

Karina comes from Moscow to a small Tatar town to visit her parents. The father treats his daughter for her way of life. Karina's mom shares a secret with her, which becomes a serious opportunity to take revenge on her father for all the insults.