A screen adaptation of the eponymous novel by Vasily Aksenov.
Heroes "Mysterious Passion" are fictitious names, but for them to easily discern the real people, which everyone knows: Robert Rozhdestvensky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Andrei Voznesensky, Bulat Okudzhava, Bella Akhmadulina, Vladimir Vysotsky, Ernst Neizvestny, and he Vasily Aksyonov and other .
The film is about how to live these people - resisted authority or succumbed to her, loved, betrayed, believed. And he continued to write, no matter what.