It's 1951. Klava Grachyova comes to take her husband home from a penal colony where he spent the last 9 years. He is not eager to come back home. Klava has only 3 days to sort everything out and take her husband back.
Petya is a representative of the carefree Moscow youth, and in one day he goes through a test of friendship, love experiences and, finally, an awareness of the need for change.
Professional burnout plays a cruel joke on the author of fortune cookies. Instead of vanilla slogans, he sends harsh threats from his script "Bloody Massacre in Mytishchi" to production. It turns out that the cookies are intended for a corporate party of a mafia group.