Two young provincials come to Moscow for their girls. The paratrooper officer Kostya was abandoned by his beloved, exchanging him for the capital's dude, and he is determined, firstly, to punch the offender in the face, and secondly, to return his beloved. The girlfriend of Misha Myshkin, a graduate of the seminary, had long forgotten about its existence. The heroes, having met on the train, disperse at the station to woo their beloved, but the cruel, mysterious, phantasmagoric city does not let go of its victims so easily.