Dmitri Shagin

A young Surrealist artist arrives in Leningrad to enter the Academy of Arts. In search of like-minded people, he goes around the city, gets to know his inhabitants and meets Alevtina, a girl who has already entered the bohemian environment...

Vasiliy Deryaba, an amateur ornithologist from Orel, arrives on a business trip to a small provincial town. Upon his arrival, he learns that the person who invited him had disappeared without a trace the day before.

How evil capitalist Mr. Mayer broke with his bourgeois past after meeting Mitki art group.

Basically, the action of the film takes place in a madhouse. But the absurdity has no boundaries, it has only a cause. And in this total madness the characters try to find the answers.

The film takes place in a pioneer camp during Khrushchev's "thaw." It's the story of a boy's entry into life. The hero's first love, for a beautiful girl named Sonya, is not so much love as a premonition of love—a premonition of something important that the world around him reveals to him.