About the film: year - 2001 / 1 hour 15 min. Soviet scientist. Tomorrow he has to leave his homeland, because a department of one of the largest universities in Paris awaits him. There he will have enormous opportunities for scientific activity, there they want to see and hear him, there he is an authority and world-renowned. The decision to leave Russia was not easy for him, he resisted it for a long time, he considered leaving the country a betrayal. After his last scientific conference in Russia, on his way to the airport, Matvey Terentyevich stopped in the village where he was born and raised..