This is a story about two orphanages in the city of Ufa, in which a competition based on the novel "The Count of Monte Cristo" was announced. The series shows the preparation for the competition, its final, the life of children, their destinies, their games, their dreams. The authors tried to make a funny film about a sad topic.

A film about a selfless and enthusiastic person Evgeny Leonidovich Gloriozov, a five-time USSR champion in sambo and a doctor of physical and mathematical sciences, who has been holding sambo sports competitions among children from orphanages for many years.