To Moscow have arrived the participants of the international conference of the zoophilologists and also the international jury which is to elect for the world festival the best performance of the program of Moscow circus. Mrs Whistler (Iva Janzurová), British associate professor, makes her understood with the animals in their language but the Czech professor Ruzicka (Jirí Sovák), though he is capable of using the animals language, prefers teaching the animals the human language. Ruzicka's friend, the poodle Archibald, speaks "in Human" very well. The scientific dispute ends with a bet - if Ruzicka teaches the circus elephant to sing, Mrs Whistler will eat up her hat.
The hero of the play, physicist Anosov, after a failed scientific experiment, goes to the “country” of his childhood - Blagush, once a suburban district of Moscow. Memories help the hero find the strength to continue working.
Based on the novel of Vasiliy Aksyonov "A Ticket to the Stars".
School is over, final exams are behind — and Dimka was the first to think of waving away from home. The convictions of his elder brother Viktor about a serious attitude to the future life only more “warmed up” the four friends, and for the first time they went to Tallinn for the first time without the bored care of adults...
A talented scientist Andrei Gusarov has been through difficult times - from the thirties in the Stalin's USSR and all the way to the launch of first Soviet satellite.
A new Soviet life is emerging in a new Moscow microdistrict. New people, new families, new neighbors. The elevator is not yet working, or is no longer working due to constant overload due to transporting furniture. Neighbors are just getting to know each other, getting to know each other, and gradually the lives of different families imperceptibly begin to intersect.
