Victor Sluzhkin signs on as a teacher of geography in a secondary school in his native Perm (in the Urals) and gets lost in a haze of hard vodka, desperate love for a nymphet-like student and the stress of educating teenagers. Geographer, as the students immediately dub Sluzhkin, attempts to escape from the grueling, dull, stultifying reality of Russia's provincial life in a rafting tour to the Urals. Accompanied by wild, adventure-seeking adolescents, faced with the numerous grim surprises of the nature, Geographer is poised to find himself and his own truth.

Kolya wakes up after a terrible drinking binge. He is awakened by a call from his sister, who tells him that their father's body has been lost in the morgue. Kolya is indifferent to this news, but suddenly, while walking around the apartment, he stumbles upon his father's body in his bathroom. Now Kolya is forced to secretly return his father's body to the morgue.