The action takes place in Khrushchev. Two people live there: Maria Petrovna, an elderly and very simple woman, and her daughter Vika, a dancer in a nightclub. The mother constantly drags things from the trash heap, does not allow anything to be thrown away, turning the already cramped apartment into a storage facility for rubbish, irritating her daughter with her behavior. The only joy for Maria Petrovna is her son, Victor, who left for America seven years ago and opened a business there. And so, one fine day he returns to his mother, and suddenly it turns out that he spent all these years not in the USA at all...