This is a collection of five satyrical short films, including little intermision talk:
1) "Kak Sozdavalsya Robinzon" (How Robinson was Created) - writer is comissioned to make soviet version of Robinson Cruzoe;
2) "Istoriya s Pirozhkami" (Incident with Pastries) - customer has problems paying for pastries, because he has eaten them before getting to the counter;
3) "Inostrantsy...
The story takes place in the 1950s. Konstantin “Kostik” Romin (Oleg Menshikov) has come to Moscow to study history and is staying with kindly aunt Alisa (Sofya Pilyavskaya), who runs a communal apartment building there. His life soon becomes intertwined with those of the other residents. Among them are Margarita Pavlovna (Inna Ulyanova) and both her former husband Lev Khobotov ...