The slacker and dandy Zhora Volobuev, in search of a client, appears in the lobby of a Moscow hotel and soon meets the son of a Californian millionaire, Frank. Zhora invites Frank to his home, where Frank arranges a kind of press conference. He is interested in everything: how his new friends live, what they think about life, what means they live on. After the visit, Frank leaves for the hotel. In the hope of buying overseas things from the American, Zhora and his friends follow him and there they learn that their new friend is an ordinary Soviet journalist.