World Exhibition of 1900. Electricity, cinema, cars... The world of Others is excited by the achievements of ordinary people: technical innovations can compete with magic. Watches from all over the world send delegations to Paris; The Russian Empire did not stand aside either. Young cinematographer Leonid Alexandrov finds himself in the thick of patrol intrigues, at the epicenter of a conspiracy that has been brewing for many decades. He is the Other behind the camera; his job is to record events. However, this does not mean that a person with a movie camera is not able to influence anything. Light and shadows are equally important for the lens, but it is not for nothing that the screen is initially white and the square on it is light.