The film tells about little-known pages in the life of Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, a brilliant Russian scientist and thinker.
September 2007 marked the 150th anniversary of K.E. Tsiolkovsky's birth. Tsiolkovsky worked in the years when humanity was obsessed with the dream of flying. Scientists, engineers and the military argued about priorities, competing with each other, bought and sometimes stole technical ideas from each other. Most of the brilliant technical inventions were stolen from the eccentric inventor of rockets and airships, a mathematics teacher from Kaluga Tsiolkovsky. He became the author of outstanding philosophical, religious and sociological works. The scientist believed in numerology as a science, and with its help he tried to understand the reason for his tragic life, which included deafness, need, hunger, unhappy love and the death of his five children.
Newsreel: Tsiolkovsky, pre-revolutionary Kaluga, Red Square of the early 20th century, Tsiolkovsky's funeral.
Interviews with Professor Nikolai Gavryushin, cosmonaut historian Yuri Biryukov, numerologist Klara Kuzdenbaeva, Tsiolkovsky's great-granddaughter Elena Timoshenkova, FKA head Anatoly Perminov, and cosmonaut Vladimir Dzhanibekov.