The hero, left without work, is going to leave the capital. At the station he meets a pensioner who offers to go to a friend in the village. There, on the lands of the former collective farm “Zavety Lukich”, a cosmodrome of the same name is being built. They get a job on a fence-building team. Construction deadlines are constantly postponed, money is not paid, workers run away, leaving their team and the military construction battalion behind. At this time the order comes to prepare for the rocket launch. The battalion commander persuades them to take over the construction of the cosmodrome so as not to damage the prestige of the country. They, succumbing to his patriotic speeches, agree and, solving the eternal Russian problems along the way, get to work...Contains non-standard language Contains obscene language.