A Picture to Remember is an essayistic narrative about the war from the perspective of three generations of women. There are frequent video calls between Chernykh, her mother (a pathologist who works above a morgue where one feels surprisingly safe during the bombings) and her grandmother. Recordings of their conversations are intercut with photos and videos from the family archive and news reports, as well as images of microorganisms that Chernykh's mother observes under a microscope.