Alexander Dronov, the actor, didn't have many success in his life. But despite all the troubles he has an important life mission - he's the man at the window.
The film is a modern adaptation of Alexander Ostrovsky's unforgettable play "Profitable Place".
Imagine a mix of Repo Man, Oliver! and Pinocchio and you're on the road to grasping the tone of this bizarre Estonian take on Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy's character Buratino, a wooden boy (or boyus woodenus, as the doctors in the film refer to him). Buratino's virginal mother wishes upon a star for a son and is immediately answered by what can only be called a rape-splinter. The woman gives birth almost immediately to her little wooden Buratino.
They don't really know each other. She lives in penury. He holds a pawnshop. Poverty makes her marry him, despite she doesn't love him and even despises. After the marriage takes place, the family war begins. Based on a novel 'A Gentle Creature' by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
This Colonel Sergei Dedov aka Ded in a courageous performance by Boris Galkin — again on NTV! Some time has passed since the last meeting with him. Dedov's granddaughter studies at the Institute, meets with a young man, going to marry him, he himself Sergey waiting for a teaching position at the Suvorov military school.
Each of the three main characters in the film does not have a very successful personal life. And it was as if Fate had given them another try.