A young provincial, Aleksander Aduev, moves to St. Petersburg to live with his pragmatic uncle, where he experiences the collapse of his romantic ideals.

The film is based on Andersen's fairy tale "Swineherd".

A romantic love story set in a good old XIX century in the best traditions of Russian vaudevilles.

The film is based on the story by a war writer Vladimir Kondratiyev "Furlough by wound" - the story of several weeks spent in Moscow by a young Lieutenant Volodya after a course of treatment in a hospital.