The film is divided into two distinct stories with the same setting: the back-stage of the Moscow Operetta theater with the Can-Can metaphor which is a high-energy and physically demanding dance. Human relationships, betrayals, and the relationship between parents and children are the same common denominator found in the two parts of the film.
Imagine a mix of Repo Man, Oliver! and Pinocchio and you're on the road to grasping the tone of this bizarre Estonian take on Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy's character Buratino, a wooden boy (or boyus woodenus, as the doctors in the film refer to him). Buratino's virginal mother wishes upon a star for a son and is immediately answered by what can only be called a rape-splinter. The woman gives birth almost immediately to her little wooden Buratino.
Sergei and Simon have to deliver a suitcase full of heroin to Mikhalych or else they will be killed. There is one minor detail: the only problem-solving technique they are familiar with is a shot in the head.
About how the Hedgehog, the Little Fox and the Crow went to the Land of Happiness. But it turned out that happiness is nearby, in everyday life, and you don't have to go far for it.
Information about the upcoming coup d'etat falls into the hands of a TV reporter. At his own risk, he begins an investigation...
In the years of his Komsomol youth, the first builders of the city laid out a public garden. And now they strongly object to the decision of the city council to divide the garden into garden plots...
A group of "friends" are trying to solve a mysterious death of a factory director - and find the money he stole from them.
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