The life of Mr. Kettle, an executive of a single bank in a small provincial English town Brickmill, is strictly organized: 7 a.m. stand up, then breakfast, at 9 a.m. work, at 13 p.m. diner, then work, at 18 p.m.- the end of a workday, then club, home, sleep. But one dull English morning almost having reached his work, he stops near a shop window, trading toys. How is Mrs. Twigg, Kettle's housekeeper amazed when she sees seem at home with bags and hears him saying that he is not intended to go to work any longer. This is the day when Mr. Kettle suddenly meets his love, and after a series of funny and tragic situations both choose a new life free and joyful.

Lyuska, an employee of the only savings bank in the very young town of Radiozavodsk, wins a nylon fur coat on a lottery ticket. Her colleagues advise her to get the money and buy something useful. Lyuska goes to the regional capital, receives the money, and decides to spend it on a two-week trip to Moscow.

A graduate of medical school, wanting to stay in Leningrad , Leningrad married - an engineer who designs bridges - Alexis. It was a marriage of convenience. However, Lyudmila, a capable student, the committee on the distribution of reserves in Leningrad, and in that time, Alex agrees to the construction of a bridge in Siberia, and demands that his wife was riding with him ...

影片根据旧俄剧作家亚历山大·奥斯特洛夫斯基的戏剧《没有陪嫁的新娘》改编。 才貌双全的拉丽沙是城里许多人追求的对象，她的母亲想把她嫁给有钱人，从而自己过上好日子，拉丽沙倾心于大富豪巴拉托夫，并委身于他，但后者已与一个以金矿为陪嫁的小姐订婚，就在拉丽沙失望之际，她倒在了不曾爱过的未婚夫的枪口下。 本片曾于1985年获全苏影业最佳故事片、最佳摄影、最佳作曲、最佳男主角奖。俄罗斯大导演和演员米哈尔科夫在片中的表演和演唱都异常精彩。俄罗斯最具影响力的民谣歌手安德烈·彼得罗夫为该片谱曲。