Under the guise of a student construction team of graduate students, a team of coven workers arrives at the collective farm, expecting to receive a thousand rubles each for the construction of a fountain that was not included in the estimate. However, under the gun of a local photojournalist and the close attention of collective farmers, evening school student Ruslan Ruslanych, drunkard Tyulkin, lighting designer at the theater Savchuk and Panin, hiding from alimony, in order not to give themselves away, they are forced to work conscientiously and re-educate.