Kolya Tarankin was not included in the queue to receive housing in a new house built for their plant by a company called “Joint Venture “Preistroika””. He was in honorable fourth place in the new line, the one that will watch the current housewarmings from the sidelines and wait in the wings for years. And the mind of a modest technologist, a member of the public housing council, could not bear the blow of fate. Right in front of the housing commission’s stand, Kolya Tarankin made a terrible oath. In the presence of a list of witnesses, he swore that he would give his soul to the devil, but would move into a new apartment. In the evening, a car from a trans agency approached his barracks, they loaded Kolya and Galka with their belongings, took the children and forcibly moved into their new house... Only who saw him after that. And then it started! The house turned out to be difficult...