Little dog Kashtanka is stolen, sold, tossed out into the street and saved by a clown. Young Fedyushka gets lost looking for the dog and ends up a prisoner of the sinister Mazamet who compels him to rove from house to house to make money, while Fedyushka’s father wanders through the streets in search of his lost child.

A travelling circus troupe during the Civil War. A kommissar tries to transfer the wagon into an agit-prop van. The Whites conquer the town. The kommissar hides among the artists.

科里亚（Nikolai Batalov 饰）与瓦洛加（Vladimir Fogel 饰）是一同参加红军的战友，后来分别做了建筑工人和印刷工人。科里亚与妻子柳达（Lyudmila Semyonova 饰）生活在莫斯科一间狭小的居室内，乐天的科里亚不曾留意妻子的琐碎不满。适逢瓦洛加奔赴莫斯科寻找工作，一时没有落脚之处，科里亚在离家施工的前夕收留了瓦洛加，安排瓦洛加睡在沙发上。在科里亚离家的日子里，瓦洛加同柳达发生了关系，获悉此事的科里亚拂袖而去，但家的舒适回忆让他最终返回并占据了沙发。两个男人和好如初之后，柳达发现自己怀孕了，但胎儿的父亲此时却无法确认，柳达选择了堕胎……