The film deals with intellectual activities which are usually hidden from the human eye
It concerns doing research in film archives, searching for missing films and bringing them back to life. It is a documentary about the work of Dziga Vertov, a prominent Soviet director, and the restoration of the director’s original concept of the films “The Anniversary of the Revolution” (1918), “The History of the Civil War” (1921), “Man With a Movie Camera” (1929).