Colonel Koloda, recruited by foreign intelligence, stole secret documents of national importance. In fact, the documents are fake, disinformation for foreign intelligence agencies. The surveillance of the traitor leads the operatives to the bank, where he leaves the documents in the cell number 69. To establish who will come for them, Captain Alexey Vereshchagin comes to the bank under the guise of a client. Ironically, it is this bank that Mikhail Druskin, a desperate candidate of sciences and single father, wants to rob. When he sees the police, he takes the bank's visitors hostage in fright.

The outskirts of a big city. A young family: Masha, Dead and Zhora the pug. Masha flies away for three days, leaving Zhora in the care of a Dead Man. For the first time in their short life together, the Dead Man remains at home alone, not yet realizing that the next day, with a frantic doorbell, his life will change significantly, and he will fall out of the usual unhurried reality for three whole days. Meanwhile, Zhora will make an eschatological journey and meet many strange people on his way, on whom his dog's life will depend...

The mid-60s, the time of the "thaw" after the terrible Stalin years. There was a "golden youth" - dudes in trousers with a pipe, jazz "on the ribs", the first farcers. Two blockheads cheerfully while away, trying the delights of adulthood - dancing, wine, girls. But in the end, everyone chooses his life path.