This Ukrainian fantasy reflects the careful retelling of a folk legend about a beautiful sorceress and her young apprentice. The older witch initiates the younger into a magical world while two winged men observe them. The film is done without sensation.

The young scientist Vladimir Bantikov creates his double - the robot Yasha. But Yasha quickly learns and starts living his own life.

A young couple on the river bank leaf through Lesya Ukrainka's book "Forest Song". Reading takes the young people to Polesia, where the drama takes place.