Comedy based on the story "The Situation in the Balkans" by L. Yuzefovich, written on the materials about the agent of the St. Petersburg police V. Putilin - the hero of comics and funny stories of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Putilin - the hero of comic books and funny stories of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movie investigates the murder of Count von Arensberg, the Austrian ambassador to St. Petersburg.