The film is about family life as an endless kaleidoscope of mutual manipulations. The title character is 90-year-old Alexander Brown, the father of director Valeriya Gai Germanika, for whom she is just Lera, just as for her daughters Octavia and Severina – just Tava and Seva. The main thing in good directing is the ability to see a unique human personality, even if it is your own, long-familiar dad, and in time to ask a surprised question: "Dad, why do you have the face of an Auschwitz prisoner?" The author conducts the same lively dialogue with other household members. "I am Octavia, the saddest person in the world, I have a very bad life", says the granddaughter of the hero and receives maternal consolation: "The life of a teenager is difficult".