Contemporary Moscow. Danya, a struggling actor, has just lost his girlfriend. His troubles soon multiply when his younger brother Dima shows up at his apartment with a friend who has a bullet in his stomach.

What happens if Vasily Ivanovich, Teshcha, Chukcha and Novyi Russkiy end up in modern Moscow? The naive provincial Petya learned the answer to this question by accidentally reviving the characters from his favorite collection of jokes. Now he will have to figure out how to bring them back to their world. After all, if Petya doesn’t make it in time, the jokes will disappear from people’s memories forever…