90’ların ortasında, perişan haldeki, her şeyin çürümeye yüz tuttuğu Saint Petersburg’da, bir savaş gazisi olan Ivan, sabırla yaşamının geri kalan yıllarını geçirmeyi bekler. Boş zamanında bir roman yazar ve çevredeki kabadayıların yaptıklarını görmezden gelmeye çalışır.

Ateşçi

Nikolai (played by Sergei Dontsov) has been fired from his job as a music teacher and has to live in the gym until he finds a place to stay. Finally, he gets a communal room in the apartment of Gorokhov (Victor Mikhalkov). The room's previous inhabitant, an old lady, has died a year ago, and yet her cat, Maxi, is still in the locked room, healthy and fat. Soon, Nikolai and his neighbours discover the mystery: there is a window to Paris in the room. That's when the comedy begins - will the Russians be able to cope with the temptation to profit from the discovery?