A young talented experimental physicist Artem meets an orphanage pupil Misha. The teenager is obsessed with the idea of seeing his native village, memories of which are captured on a single videotape. A chain of random events leads the new acquaintances to a village house, where the boy meets his early childhood, and the scientist sees the prospects of his discoveries in science in a new way and gives the teenager a goal in life, infecting him with a love of science.