Yuri Konopkin

A Finn preparing a work on the Russian hunting traditions and customs, comes to Russia to collect materials and is invited to take part in a hunting party. His flamboyant companions include an Army general, with more than a passing resemblance to Aleksander Lebed, a police detective, local forest ranger (a devotee of Zen Buddhism) and some big-city types from St. Petersburg. Inevitably, their good intentions soon give way to endless drinking, visits to local farm girls and much else besides.

General Ivolgin, forester Kuzmich, and good-natured Lyova now are going into politics.

By the will of fate, 17-year-old Roman becomes a patient of an old private clinic located on the seashore. While waiting for a complicated operation, he meets a mysterious Professor and a beautiful but unpredictable nurse Anna, not realizing that now his life will depend entirely on their desires and actions.