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A seventeen-year-old nurse lives in a small provincial town, who is raised by a strict surgeon grandmother. One night, Lerka runs away from home and goes to Moscow in search of her mother. From that moment on, adventures begin in her life. The adventures are funny on the one hand, and instructive on the other. Arriving in Moscow, Lerka finds a very strange baby in her mother's house. It turns out that Mom was taken to the hospital, and six-year-old Deniska is none other than little Lerkin's brother. Deniska is a very unusual kid, smart beyond his years, but he doesn't talk at all. Two weeks spent in the capital, a difficult relationship with his brother, meeting new people completely change Lerkin's life.
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Slava Kolotilov, a schoolteacher from the town of Palchiki, arrived in Moscow with a manuscript of his novel in hand and met Nadia. Before the wedding, Deputy Trekhgolovich, confused, mistakes Kolotilov for the coach of a children's soccer team. Trekhgolovich confiscates Kolotilov's passport and tears up his ticket to Moscow, while Kolotilov does everything he can to ensure that his hastily assembled team loses so that he can leave for his bride.
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