Feliks Hilevych

A rare representative of black comedy in Ukrainian Soviet cinema before the Perestroika era. Lapenkov is a petty Soviet townsman of an intensely neurotic disposition. One day, an artist approaches him on the street, obsessed with the idea of turning the man into the image of a murderer.

Everything would have gone on as usual in the island of Anchuria, if not for a small suitcase filled with hundreds of thousands of dollars that suddenly turned up at the local barber's, and the mysterious stranger who one day was washed ashore by the waves on the coast of Anchuria...