On a planet with an impenetrable jungle there are 4 bases of different countries. After the arrival of the cargo ship from Earth, cases of violation of the Prohibition Law began to appear. At first they thought they had smuggled a couple of cases of whiskey, but for the 400 people on the base they should have run out long ago, and the drinking went on and on. It was only by luck that the cause of drunkenness was established.