The story is about a cheerful company of friends who must outwit the villain Cesare, who by blackmail and deception wants to marry the beautiful Chanita.

A delinquent boy of about fifteen years is sent to a reformatory and there finds himself in more trouble than he was in the outside world. Can he endure the frequent bullying that occurs at his new home?

At the heart of the movie - true stories about separations and meetings, about search of relatives, the proceeding many years after war.

Various dwellers of the Russian forest: Leshiy (forest goblin), Vodyanoy (water spirit), Ovinni (barn spirit) Domovoy (house spirit), Anchutka (gremlin) and Rusalka (mermaid) meet at Baba Yaga's chicken-legged hut and receive an esteemed guest who appears from nowhere. They gather around one table to say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new, that is until the guest grows bored with their antics and seeks fun elsewhere.

Mary and Ivan are working on a diamond factory. The wedding day is already set. But Ivan has a secret: during his stay in prison, the leader of the gang gave him a bag of diamonds for safekeeping. Return the "stones" factory — means to Express itself as a partner in crime, throw — sorry, but left for Mary — to destroy love. Soon the "friend" made itself felt and demanded to repay the debt…

Arriving in Moscow, the young, energetic provincial woman quickly joins the circle of booksellers. Having charmed her boss, Svetik got a job in the antiquarian literature department. But soon she herself fell in love, and the gullible bibliomaniac becomes the master of her unspent energy.

A hospital nurse becomes an "international girl" — a prostitute who caters to foreigners with hard currency.