Nikolay Vasilievich Gogol, who has already become a writer, recalls the lyceum pranks of young Nikosha Gogol with his friends at the Nezhinskiy Lyceum and his teachers; about the home amateur theater of the father of the writer Vasiliy Gogol in the Vasilyevka estate in Ukraine. Throughout the film, between young and mature Gogol - a dialogue about the meaning of life and work of the writer.—Tango Papa