Overview: Summer is coming in a small town on the Volga, and in the life of the self-confident and resourceful Sasha, it is a transitional time. At the age of 15, he is in a hurry to grow up, and growing up for him means earning and spending what he wants, sleeping with a girl from the next class and overcoming his enemy - a bully from the working outskirts.
Overview: August 1960. Director Nikolai Berentsev is working on a large-scale science fiction film about an expedition to Venus. The construction of grandiose decorations begins in the pavilion. Berentsev himself develops models of planets and spacecraft, comes up with special devices for combined filming. He tries to imagine and visualize something that no one has ever seen — life on other planets. He believes that fantasy should run ahead of science, but faces skepticism from colleagues and the scientific community. In the end, he himself begins to doubt whether his film is needed by the audience, why these dreams of Space, when there are so many unresolved problems on Earth.