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?
A middle-aged, alcoholic lawyer inherits a mysterious, unsigned will from his father.
In this affectionate, leisurely paced comedy, an Odessa policeman is out walking his beat when he discovers an adorable infant abandoned in a cabbage patch. He does his duty and takes the baby to an orphanage, but later he and his wife, who have an unusually affectionate and cozy relationship, decide to try and adopt the little one. What they must go through to accomplish that goal is anything but straightforward.
O filme começa com uma narrativa sobre uma médica de meia-idade chamada Natasha que está vivendo uma fase de ira explosiva e agressiva após a morte de seu marido e se transforma em um conto sobre um professor inglês insatisfeito chamado Nikolai que volta e meia adormece, independente do que esteja acontecendo a sua volta.
