Set in late-1920s Soviet Union, Ostap Bender and Ippolit "Kisa" Vorobyaninov are after a stash of diamonds hidden in one of the chairs in 12-chair set. They are forced to go on a cross-country chase when the chairs are auctioned off.
A television film based on vaudeville and early short stories by Anton Chekhov, "The Proposal", "The Wedding", "The Anniversary", etc. The scene is a provincial ball.
The plot is based on the story of a meeting and reconciliation after many years of separation of the Mikhailovs, the realization of a mistake they made in their youth. Once they were too lazy to understand each other. He left for the construction site in a hurry, and she, having accepted his departure, did not forget the offense. A few years later, the hero came to his wife and grown-up daughter
