It so happens that Andrey ends up in a mental hospital. Incredible as it may seem, this is the place where he finds true friends for the first time in his life and gets a chance to change his life.
December 1941. Leningrad. The story centers on the main character, who, together with other employees, saves zoo animals from shelling. The people themselves are on the brink of life and death, but they do not abandon the hippopotamus named Krasavitsa.
