Gusev, a somewhat melancholy engineer of a Moscow research institute, drinks a bottle of vodka on the train taking him to the destination of his business trip, after which his places of stay are as follows: the trunk of a car, the endless steppe and salt mines, where he becomes a slave. He is then ransomed by a German colonist, arrested, escapes and encounters the mafia. As a result has a protruding jaw, shifting eyebrows, a tan, biceps and no melancholy!