The Soviet Union has become a terrible and distant past for many, and some were even born in the era of the formation of New Russia. But was everything so gloomy and bad in the 20th century? Progress, the age of information technology - all this further alienates the old generation from the new. However, we should not forget that among the many “variables”, there will always be “constants”. Members of a large family, led by Veniamin Evgenievich, are trying to find a common language with each other. Persuasion to supply gas to the old man's house develops into a heated argument.