Yevgeny Yevstigneyev, Georgy Burkov, Leonid Yarmolnik, Galina Polskikh in a sad comedy by Sergey Nikonenko based on Vasily Shukshinās short stories āTouches on the Portraitā, āThe Stubborn Oneā, āThe Strong Go Furtherā. Nikolai Knyazev works in a TV repair shop. God has blessed him with golden hands and heart, yet the majority of his fellow-town folk think heās a bit nutty. And for a good reason: heās constructing a perpetual motion machine, for years has been writing a philosophical treatise, dreaming of world fame and looking down on the other inhabitants of this sinful earth. But no matter how hard he is looking, he canāt see where his happiness (that is, post-office employee Lyuba) liesā¦
