Rudolf Hrušínský plays the starring role and is joined in the cast by others including Josef Abrhám, Daniela Kolářová, and Zita Kabátová.
In order to be able to carry out the "biggest event in the history of moving", as the group's organizer describes it, Dr. Radosta unbeknownst the wedding of the older couple engaged Mr. Flieger and Mrs. Opatrná on a different date and place, because they must be married before the swap takes place from legal reasons of the time story happened.
The wedding festivities result in a nightly moving exercise organized by the drunken Mr. Knotek, after which especially the punctual inspector Mr. Drahota wants to resign from his swap.
However, for Mr. Knotek, swap of the basement storage cellars with the unpopular neighbor Klabouch also represents a laborious mutual exchange of their coal.
Therefore, together with Doctor Radosta, they decide to move Master Bílek's body covered by duvets on the couch to a new apartment and pretend that he died there.