An ordinary city boy comes with his dad to visit his grandfather in the village. There he is met by not very friendly local guys and a girl with whom he immediately falls in love. Grandfather constantly tells funny stories about his glorious military past, which open up a completely new, magical world for him, teach him the main values ​​​​of life and make a real man.

Mashenka's grandmother tells her a fairy tale about a magical land where tangerines grow that grant wishes. Dreaming only of her mother's recovery and return home, the girl sets out in search of the magic tangerine. But the fulfillment of wishes is under threat all over the world, as an evil minister is poisoning the magic tangerines.