Yurka Zhuravin inherited rare books from his grandfather. The father, a dump truck driver, a “hard worker,” sincerely does not understand his son’s passion for sophisticated tomes - “The Three Musketeers” is much closer to him. And just think - for a tattered little book in a second-hand shop they give fifty rubles. And one day, in order to pay the movers, the father secretly gives the book to the store. When the loss was discovered, he avoided answering. Infuriated by the harsh reproof of his son, Zhuravin the father decides to teach him a lesson in the old grandfather’s way - a brutal flogging...