The film segment shows music composer Leoš Janáček with musicologist and folklorist Viktor Michajlovič Běljajev, music composer Viliam Figuš-Bystrý, opera singer Marie Calma-Veselá and musicologist Ernest Closson on the deck of a steamboat at the International Festival of Contemporary Music in Prague, 1925. Janáček with a composer Karel Kovařovic and a group of unidentified men by the back door to the National Theatre in Prague.