This is a documentary film about the expedition of a Czech contemporary across Russia in the footsteps of his ancestor. Jaroslav Triska is a teacher who discovered his grandfather’s diary a few years ago; he had spent the First World War and the civil war in Russia and only returned to his native village six years later, in 1920. In 2010 his grandson sets out on his lifetime trip exactly along the route of his grandfather’s pilgrimage: Prague – Moscow – Yekaterinburg – Novosibirsk – Vladivostok. The documentary tries to find answers to questions like – can one say that Russia has a democratic system? What kind of a democracy is this? Should we fear Vladimir Putin? Why do they shoot reporters in Russia?