A chemist by training, Aleksandr Petrovich Bochkin manages a Moskva dry-cleaning operation, but lives a very comfortable life, taking orders on the side for his speculative "private enterprise", run in conjunction with "Queen Margot". But when his old friend from the chemical institute, Yury Lebedev arrives in Moskva from the Siberian city of Dalnegorsk, along with a traveling companion, Olga, Bochkin becomes uncomfortable with his job title.
A chemist by training, Aleksandr Petrovich Bochkin manages a Moskva dry-cleaning operation, but lives a very comfortable life, taking orders on the side for his speculative "private enterprise", run in conjunction with "Queen Margot". But when his old friend from the chemical institute, Yury Lebedev arrives in Moskva from the Siberian city of Dalnegorsk, along with a traveling companion, Olga, Bochkin becomes uncomfortable with his job title.