This book is about Taras Shevchenko, his three trips to Ukraine and the people close to him. It describes the external and internal manifestations of the poet's everyday life during his three trips to Ukraine. The film describes his stay with representatives of the nineteenth-century Ukrainian elite, his social circle, expeditions and balls. And at the same time, his inner experiences: love, the pain of serfdom, the inspiration of a free man, the feeling of an exiled person, the state of an unreliable person, internal rebellion against the empire, and doubts. It is valuable that this book shows Shevchenko alive, not templated, without the distance of time and layers of cultism - Shevchenko up close.