Set in the Soviet Union, the film is a chronicle of a life of one successful artist: his family, his friends, his clients, and his artworks.
In the first part, the students complain that classic works of literature have no bearing on modern life - and find themselves in a situation strangely resembling something they've read... It's Gogol's "Inspector General" - but set in a summer camp... In the second part, after reading Don Quixote, the ever-adventurous Vasechkin convinces more cautious Petrov that he has found a game that they could play for life. No sooner they go off than Vasechkin, on a bike, brandishing an umbrella, attacks a giant... That is, a windmill...
The test pilot of a new fighter gets into an accident and is disabled. The management assigns Evgeny Fetisov to conduct the final ten flights, and thus rejects his request for a long—awaited vacation.…
One night, the famous robber Merzavio comes to the house of archivist Jiří Havříček, the most educated man in town. Merzavio asks the archivist to become a teacher for ten years for his two hooligan sons Vincek and Frantik.
A train passenger discovered a bag containing money from the sale of a house was missing. All passengers on the train are suspects.
The story of a photographer who goes to work in a photo studio every day through a garden that changes depending on the state of mind of the photographer. The garden finally blooms when a girl comes to the photo studio - a dream, the same one that the photographer had glimpsed before on the street.