Is the story we have known since childhood true? Continuation of the Russian folk tale "Mashenka and the Bear". Difficult times have come in the life of Mikhailo Ivanovich. Residents from the village of Mashenki want to drive him out of the forest, but he is sure that he has not done anything wrong. The reader will have to find out why Mikhailo Ivanovich did not let Mashenka go, what she herself thinks about all this and what pancakes and dumplings have to do with it. In the forest, along with Mikhail Ivanovich, live the Gray Wolf and the Fox, who do not understand him at all. A hedgehog, thanks to which the bear understands what's what. Will Mikhailo Ivanovich be able to stay in his native forest?