The film is an autobiographical film. The film completely ignores the plot clues and directly shows the memories of the teenager: the young Andrey Arsenyevich Tarkovsky walked in the mud with his young mother to a relative's house to borrow money, staying alone in a strange room. In silence, he found Zerkalo and saw himself in Zerkalo. The camera moved closer to the face in Zerkalo, and then to the face outside Zerkalo, Bach's music sounded outside the painting, and the sound of the music went from weak to strong. The young Andre sat quietly and motionless in front of Zerkalo, staring at himself in Zerkalo for a long time
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The child is watching a documentary on the treatment of stuttering. The stuttering student finally defeated himself and said fluently: "I can speak". The young mother is wearing a thick wool sweater, smoking a cigarette, sitting on a wooden fence, she has a kind of elegance in her bones, which comes from her lightness and her upbringing. Although she smokes, an elegant woman still belongs to smoking. Her own demeanor. The wind blew across the buckwheat field, and a man came over. Obviously he is not the one that the mother is waiting for, but he is a man. The boy in the cradle is paying attention to this man. Any man in his life will flash in his mind, but the man is just a passing by in a hurry. Neither the actor nor the protagonist. Later, my mother mistakenly thought that there was a “major error” in the manuscript she had proofread—this meant a very serious crime in the Soviet Union at the time, so even my colleagues were very nervous. Fortunately, nothing was wrong, but the mother who was abandoned by her husband was ridiculed by her colleagues. Then, the four images of wife, old mother, and girl who had been in love appeared one after another. Many war documentaries were also mixed in. The old mother and the young mother also began to appear in the same time and space.
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