Young journalist Andrei Petrushov, who devoted a lot of time to searching for the missing manuscript of the writer Pustyrev, who was repressed in 1937, temporarily gets a job teaching Russian language and literature at school...

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.