Young millionaire Prokhor Birkin decided to purchase an amusing little thing at auction - Salvador Dali's magic lantern, a toy with moving pictures of a Russian beauty rolling in a three-piece sleigh along a snow-covered road. The great surrealist considered this lantern his talisman and saw in the girl depicted on it the embodiment of Gala, his wife and muse of Russian origin. But the rarity was stolen directly from the auction, and the student Laura, who carried out the lots, was accused of this crime. And soon the art professor who arranged for her to work part-time at an auction was killed. Prokhor, accustomed to having all his wishes come true, decided to find the lantern, not yet suspecting that the toy had found a new owner, the same mad genius...