“Whatever you do, you make yourself,” says Eastern wisdom. It can manifest itself in the life of every person in the most unpredictable ways. A venerable professor, after a quarrel with his wife, who has seriously taken up painting, as the husband believes, to the detriment of the family, undertakes to write a novel in which he plans to outline his concept of an ideal family life. But his character, an unsuccessful designer and failed bride Inga, does not want to fit into the plot and begins to live his own life. The author, in his attempts to cope with the willful character, discovers in himself talents that have long been “overwritten” by life, which helps him take a fresh look at the choice of another person and make a “new start” himself. And Inga, having gone through funny and sad ups and downs, learned to understand the “multi-layeredness” of a person, managed to revive her dream, which she had already given up on, and began to make her way in life.