About a little orphan shoemaker Artemka, who falls in love with the circus. The action takes place in pre-revolutionary Russian Empire.

Artemy Zagoruiko and his friends Lyasya, the Negro Pepo and Kostya, familiar to the audience from the movie "The Magic Circle", but already grown up, find themselves in the thick of revolutionary events.

Fun-loving Keshka, fidgety Borka, romantic Sima, businesswoman Anechka and extremely serious Tolyan, suddenly taken up with sports, quite seriously take up the construction of the map.