This documentary film is made to commemorate the upcoming centenary of Marlen Khutsiev. The film speaks about his life, work and dreams focusing the viewer’s attention on his unique style – the cinematic language of the Master. And through this language the film strives to reveal the personality of the director. Not in the dry language of cinematography and not through abstract reflections, but by showing very specific techniques – the syllables and letters of the cinematic language that Marlen Khutsiev spoke. And that’s the main point of the film. We will witness how this cinematic language was born, how it burst into the world, how it was invented, how it transformed over the years. The core of the plot is not the biography, but the search for and analysis of the formation of specific cinematic techniques and, as a result, the various ideas that are present in Khutsiev’s work. This is a story about a restless and contradictory personality, who – until his very advanced years – retained a keen interest and his own view of the world around him.