His motto was laconic: "I promised - stay still." This is how Alexei Balabanov lived, raised his sons, was friends, and so filmed. A legendary director and an extraordinary person who made both "festival" and "mass" films with equal ease. He was a great father and a difficult husband, a loyal friend and an honest guy. Balabanov with his life, passions, losses, burning pain on the way to God in the memories of those closest to him - mother, sons, wife and friends. He seems to be telling the crew again: "Let's do it talentedly!"

本片的故事始于导演阿历克塞·巴拉巴诺夫去世的前两年，记录了他的遗作《我也想要》的制作历程；终于巴拉巴诺夫去世的多年以后。即便钟楼坍圮，也未能给他遗作中的主人公带来幸福。