Sonya, the daughter of freak photographers who spend all day taking pictures and living in a photo studio, is very lonely and therefore tries to turn everything that catches her eye into a fairy tale. One day Sonya finds a friend no less strange than herself, and he helps her perform a miracle - revive a toy cockchafer.

One day, a Wanderer appears on the doorstep of a young teacher Anya, who lives in a small seaside town. He calls himself her husband Artyom, who has gone missing. How does this man know everything that only Artyom knew?

During the day, Lera studies humankind and its needs through opinion polls, which are an educational practice at the institute; at night, she dances under the pseudonym Gerda in a club to support herself and her mother. The people she meets are as unfortunate as her family. Her father has recently left for another woman, but he constantly returns home, unable to make his choice and thereby making the life of close people intolerable. The mother painfully endures the breakup and constantly sleeps, ignoring reality. Lera doesn’t know how to carry on, where to go and what to live for, and — most importantly — how to improve life. The adult world, invariable unfortunate, which Lera observes day and night, seems hopeless.

Sram (Mars on the contrary) goes to Earth in search of the chosen bride — Nina from the village of Novoposadskoe.