文化宫里正在准备新年狂欢晚会，新来的文化宫主任奥古尔错夫对如何组织这次晚会却另有想法。他要审查每一个节目。他要求所有节日都应该是严肃的。他说他自己不爱开玩笑，也不允许别人开玩笑。他要在晚会上致开幕词，然后作40分钟关于火星上是否有生物的报告。他看芭蕾舞女演员的裙子太短，便下达了“必须改换服装”的指示。他禁止青年乐队演出，因为他们不稳重，他宁愿让养老院的乐队来演出。他不准许购买狂欢节用的面具，说苏维埃人没有必要把自己的面孔遮住。按照他的计划，狂欢晚会将被破坏殆尽。年轻的晚会组织者和参加者们与这个不学无术、狂妄而愚蠢的官僚主义者进行了大胆而机智的斗争，狂欢晚会在热烈欢乐的气氛中胜利结束。

This is a collection of five satyrical short films, including little intermision talk:
1) "Kak Sozdavalsya Robinzon" (How Robinson was Created) - writer is comissioned to make soviet version of Robinson Cruzoe;
2) "Istoriya s Pirozhkami" (Incident with Pastries) - customer has problems paying for pastries, because he has eaten them before getting to the counter;
3) "Inostrantsy" (Foreigners) - about russian people who want to be more like western people;
4) "Priyatnogo Appetita" (Bon Appetit) - one episode for restaurant life;
5) "Pyos Baros i Neobchainy Kross" (Barbos the hound and Unusual Cross-country Race) - first appearance of later famous Morgunov/Nikulin/Vitsin trio in tale about fishing with dinamite instead of fishing rods