According to the story of Albert Camus of the same name. The main character of the movie - the artist Jonah. He together with the wife and four children lives and works in a workshop. Jonah tries to devote completely the life to creativity and searches of inspiration. He constantly faces misunderstanding of the people surrounding him who prevents him to work. The wife understands Jonah best of all, but also she, despite love to him, demands from Jonah the bigger place in life. Without having sustained all vital vanity Jonah becomes a hermit. He leaves to live and work for an attic. In the course of work Jonah brings himself to exhaustion. On his attic, at last beheld the truth, relatives find.