Morten, a ten-year-old boy, is shrunk to the size of an insect due to a magical fog gun. Soon, he finds himself on his makeshift model ship sailing through a flooded cafe.
Bad fortune has deported a ballet dancer Sergei to a suburban kolkhoz. Here he's having his mundane fights against routine, domestic animals and alcohol.
Carrot unites all the characters of the story. The Hare doesn't have a carrot. But the Snowman has it. The Hare is hungry. The Snowman becomes hunted. The Snowman tries to hide itself from the Hare by unbelievable camouflage and disguise, but it is the Carrot that betrays him again and again. The coming of beautiful spring shows that the Snowman is not a real snowman and the trouble-maker Carrot becomes a sign of reconciliation.
