The film also features four People's Artists of the USSR: Rolan Bykov, Vladimir Basov, Lev Durov, and Inna Churikova.

His first short story has just been published in the magazine Yunost ("Youth"); and a famous author, Voronin, has invited him to Moscow to discuss his work.

In the Moscow Metro Volodya unexpectedly makes a friend, Kolya (Nikita Mikhalkov), who is returning home after a hard night shift.

Volodya wants to stay at his old friends' home, but he doesn't know the exact street so Kolya decide to help him find it.

Sasha is in trouble – he was planning on marrying his fiancée Sveta today, but he has been called up for military service.

The friends decide to buy a present for the bride and they go to the music shop, because Kolya is attracted to the saleswoman, Alyona (Galina Polskikh).

The real Voronin arrives and asks Volodya to help with a literary collection by young Siberian writers.

Volodya looks for Alyona and, joined by Kolya, runs into her father, who reveals she went to a concert but gets upset about random men trying to woo his daughter.

Kolya enlists a passing woman to get on the phone with Alyona’s mother to vouch for her being out late at night with a female friend.

When she refuses to pick up the phone, Kolya yells across the plaza to her building and the reception dancers below join him to get her attention.

Though its plot is a bit naive and unpretentious, it showed how wonderful life was, gives hope and tries to look at the unpleasant things in an optimistic way.