The story unfolds in a large St. Petersburg communal apartment in the center of the city, where four families live. The owner of one of the rooms, whose wisdom always extinguished any communal quarrel, died. Relationships between people, sometimes funny and sad, tragic and lyrical unfold before us. And despite the differences in temperaments, cultures, and ages within this Noah's Ark, human attitude, mutual understanding, and kinship prevail in all its vicissitudes …