Kolya, (Sergei Golovkin) an employee from the patent department of a plant, goes to Lykovo near St. Petersburg for the weekend and dies of a heart attack. The administration of the plant decides to transport the body to the homeland of the deceased for burial. For this purpose two people are sent on a business trip: Markerants, (Sergei Garmash) who at any time can develop an ulcer, and business-minded Mityagin (Mikhail Porechenkov).