Schoolboy Victor Hlushakou interested in books and films about the Indians and wrote about them the story. Once on the bus Victor meets with an alcoholic uncle, Arkady. Friendships between them. Uncle Arkady attends parent meetings at school and helps Vita strengthen the authority in the classroom, protecting Vitya from Tomilina bully. As a result, familiarity with Victor leads to the fact that Uncle Arkady stops drinking and gets a job.

年轻女工巴莎在舞场上认识了有妇之夫阿尔卡季，立刻被他特别的气质吸引，并与他开始交往。阿尔卡季使得巴莎无比快乐，她的生活变得精彩亮丽，两人不久开始同居。然而阿尔卡季的妻子济娜的介入，终止了他俩的短暂幸福。失落的巴莎偶然中被一导演相中，并起用她作为电影《圣女贞德》的女主角。但她出色的演技并没有为她带来新的角色，于是她选择了回故乡。

To Moscow have arrived the participants of the international conference of the zoophilologists and also the international jury which is to elect for the world festival the best performance of the program of Moscow circus. Mrs Whistler (Iva Janzurová), British associate professor, makes her understood with the animals in their language but the Czech professor Ruzicka (Jirí Sovák), though he is capable of using the animals language, prefers teaching the animals the human language. Ruzicka's friend, the poodle Archibald, speaks "in Human" very well. The scientific dispute ends with a bet - if Ruzicka teaches the circus elephant to sing, Mrs Whistler will eat up her hat.