When power on Earth was seized by the harsh descendants of earthlings who set off to explore the planets in the Proxima Centauri system, they established a dictatorship of strict order and high morality, driving the aborigines into a bright future with a ruthless hand. Any resistance was brutally suppressed, but still a way was found to defeat the tyrants who introduced prohibition on Earth and banned smoking on the streets without firing a single shot... A brilliant professor creates a drug that dramatically increases the mental abilities of some animals and as a result acquires an unusual assistant - a reasonable bear . The professor conducts the first test of the drug in humans on himself, but the result disappoints him - he has not become smarter (as he himself believes). However, after a series of incredible events with the active participation of the professor, his friends come to the conclusion that the drug did work, but had an unexpected consequence: the professor is drunk when sober, and sober when drunk... How to catch a unicorn for the imperial menagerie if there are so many virgins, without whom taming the beast is impossible, is rapidly approaching zero? Sir Eudoric Dambertson is not used to retreating from difficulties, but now he simply must find a solution to the problem, otherwise he will face very unpleasant consequences...