This is a diary of a journey from New York to the Cote d'Azur and beyond, through post-war Provence and Languedoc. The main place in this journey is occupied by the places of Van Gogh (Arles, Saint-Remy, Saint-Marie, Tarascon) - the search for his motives and people who still remember the artist, but places associated with Cezanne, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec also come to the attention of Burliukov.