Several children go on a lifelong space mission to Cassiopeia because they don't want to go to school.

Two pairs of partridges, Brovkins and Podkovkins, hatch by twelve chicks. Podkovkins get acquainted with the lark, and both the Brovkins family are killed by a falcon. Podkovkin's wife, the Orange Neck, decides to adopt chicks as their own. In the autumn, she brings twenty-four chicks to a meeting of partridges, and she is chosen as the main chicken.

A small railway station in the Kuban is captured, but the wounded commissar Sabbutin miraculously manages to escape.

In 1922, in a small town, the boys formed a pioneer squad and named it "Red Bees."

Vyacheslav Tikhonov's roles are discussed by his colleagues.

Millionaire commissions a play, addressing the threat of nuclear war.

Sergeant Nikolai Gorovoy returns to his native village after serving in the Army and, overcoming all sorts of difficulties, raises the collective farm amateur art organization to a proper height. His intentions, persistence and enviable patience were not in vain: when the TV group "Hello, we are looking for talents" came to the village, a bright musical spectacle unfolded in front of the TV cameras.

At the peak of the harvesting season, when there is a shortage of machinery and the new one needed adjustment, the chairman of the collective farm entrusts the combine harvesters to the Steppe Squadron of high school students. Only two of them run away from the hard work, the rest carry the labor watch under Sergey Lotarev till the very end with honor. Having learned that his favorite girl betrayed him and began to openly accept the advances of a visiting student, Lotarev decides to leave for the city, but suddenly a hurricane struck the village - and the hero rushes to the aid of his underaged brigade....

A parody of lawlessness and organized crime, terrorism and murder, violence and sexual assault, adventurous ups and downs.