The film tells about the founding of the city of Koktebel a real secret adviser Eduard Jung who in 1890 left the service in Moscow and moved to the arid lands of the future Koktebel Maximilian ...

A widowed aeronautics engineer, who has lost his job, travels with his son hopping freight trains from Moscow to Koktebel, a town by the Black Sea, to start a new life with the father's sister.