[1] It consists of three short stories, based on the works of Mikhail Zoshchenko: Crime and Punishment, Fun Adventure and Wedding Event.

The first novel describes the complexity of the shop manager, Gorbushkin living in Soviet times, the end of the 1920s on unearned income.

Anna Vasilyevna, his wife, decides that in order to prevent the inevitable confiscations of their property, they must urgently sell everything that was acquired by "back-breaking" labor.

In the final novel by the young man, Vladimir Zavitushkin, fails to offer a hand and heart, he comes to his own wedding, where he can not find a bride - before they met only on the street, and he memorized her in winter clothes.

Attempts to discreetly find out who of the women present is his future wife, lead to unpredictable consequences - the bridegroom takes the bride (and she does have a daughter (and not one) - very little) for her mother.