A family movie about a life of Trubachyov's pioneers detachment during the years before WWII.

The film is based on Russian folk tales. After serving in the army, a soldier is returning home. In an enchanted forest he meets Ivanushka whose mother, Maria the Wonderful Weaver, has been stolen by the evil, treacherous and elusive Tsar Vodokrut XIII. The brave soldier decides to help Ivanushka. In search of the boy’s mother, he will traverse with him the enchanted forest and will go down to the sea bottom.
A Fantastic and Magical Story of a Fairyland Kingdom Under the Sea. An old soldier helps a young boy find his mother, who's been kidnapped to the magical underwater kingdom in a remote Russian lake.

The story that happened on the farm near Dikanka on the night before Christmas, when the village blacksmith Vakula, having saddled the Devil, brought to his beloved Oksana, the daughter of a rich Cossack Chub, queen's "сherevichki"(the little women shoes) from the capital — St. Petersburg.