Aleksandr Adamovich

The story is about a marriage swindler of all-Union scale, who once decided to get married, and at the same time to check the profitability of his home filing cabinet, was convinced of its disorder. Upset by the failure, Gvozdev meets Zina in a bar and unwittingly finds himself drawn into the circle of misfortunes of a former variety show dancer (as she introduced herself to him).

The happy days of the first love of eighth graders dimmed when they learned that Nadina's mother and Serezha's recently widowed father were going to live together. The youthful maximalism of adolescents hurts parents.