Katya’s beloved grandmother died unexpectedly, leaving her granddaughter an inheritance of an old house on the outskirts of the Moscow region, a cat Marianna and a dog named Zhuk. Katya said goodbye to her grandmother, more or less put the household in order and was going to return to St. Petersburg to work. But Zhuk and Marianna had their own plans... (“Granddaughter, Zhuk and Marianna”). The dog Archibald, who had long ago lost his owners, wandered until he found himself under the wheels of Stas Polyakov’s car. So he got a new home. However, Stas soon got into trouble, and it was Archibald’s turn to help out the new owner (“Boatswain Archibald”).