For the first time, sketches and photographs from the archive of Nelli Fomina, a costume designer and longtime assistant and friend of director Andrei Tarkovsky, are collected under a single cover. She participated in the creation of films that have become classics of world cinema: 'Solaris,' 'Mirror,' and 'Stalker.' Her memoirs contain many unknown details about the creation of these films.

This book is not only a master class, which demonstrates practical solutions that made it possible to create unique images of the heroes of these films through costume, but also an album. A significant part of the book is made up of Nelli Fomina's photographs from the set of 'Stalker,' published for the first time. Another important part of the publication is the memoirs of Sergei Naugolnykh, who worked as a second cameraman on 'Stalker.' He shared his observations on how the most complex production tasks were solved on the set.