A special screening of a documentary film about the St. Petersburg nonconformist Anatoly Belkin turns into a living portrait of an artist, moving from a communal kitchen to the Hermitage. Archives, friends' anecdotes, the hero's own irony, and comments from a theater critic come together in an honest conversation about art and time. At the center of the film is an artist who has lived through several eras, turning each into material for art. From the Leningrad underground to the halls of the country's largest museum, his journey resembles a long walk through a city where strange stories, witty mystifications, and a persistent desire to live by one's own rules hide behind familiar facades. The film shows not a mythical hero from textbooks, but a living person with two dogs, a stubborn character, and a special sense of humor, for whom anything can become part of an expression. Director Yulia Bobkova constructs the narrative so that the viewer constantly switches between the past and the present. Footage of the workshop, drafts of works, walks along the embankments, and museum halls are combined in a nervous, dynamic montage. Instead of a dry biography, anecdotes, legends, and stories from friends are heard, in which both Belkin and the pulse of the time around him are visible. Through the jokes, questions about the freedom of the artist, the price of dissent, and how long art can resist the pressure of circumstances emerge. It is important that the film does not turn the hero into a bronze monument. He is stubborn, argues, gets tired, remembers his actions and projects, and in this stubbornness lies a special dignity. The viewer observes how a person accustomed to going against the tide prepares a new exhibition at the Hermitage, gazes at his own works, and still continues to doubt. This line makes the story particularly close to those who are themselves connected to creativity or simply do not want to reconcile with ready-made answers. Before the screening, theater critic, theater historian, editor, and candidate of art studies Olga Bogomolova will speak. Her introductory words help to view the film not only as a portrait of one author.