Petya loves the jokes that his father told him since childhood, but when he moved to Moscow, he discovers that his favorite genre causes only misunderstanding and ridicule. Even his neighbor Anya, who is passionate about tarot and esotericism, laughs at his stupid hobby. They quarrel and a magic amulet accidentally left behind revives the characters from the collection of jokes - now he has to deal with magic, find a common language with Anya and help Vasiliy Ivanovich, the new Russian, Vovochka, mother-in-law and chukchi to return back to the "anecdotal world".