Эльдар Салаватов

The Muscovite family urgently flies to Tashkent. Parents explain such haste to the 12-year-old hero by the need to help his grandfather, who lives in Uzbekistan, with business. The boy saw him only once, in deep childhood, but he remembered that meeting with an eccentric relative well.

In the evening, at the end of the working day, an unknown person calls the chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Trust Bank, Pochekaev, and informs him that armed robbers are seizing one of his bank's branches at that moment. Pochekaev takes the call for an unwise joke, and in vain. We see how five men in colorful masks break into the bank and lay employees and customers on the floor.

Ivan Sviridov returns from the army and meets with childhood friends Ravil, Markin, Pashula and Ritka. Friends arrange a party for him, at which Ivan meets Mira. The comrades offer Ivan to work with them in an auto repair shop, but Ivan has more ambitious plans: he wants to finish developing a unique technology, which he wrote about in his diploma a year ago and which immediately attracted the attention of serious businessmen. However, Uncle Misha has prepared his own plan for his nephew, in which his entire future career has already been thought out for Ivan.