The film is based of an Anton Chekhov’s story «At Home»
and tells about relations between a father and a son. How can one prove to the seven-year-old boy that smoking is harmful? It is no use explaining to him the harm tobacco can do to a young man. It is only with the help of a tale, a story, where the main character succumbs to the poisonous potion that the father can convince his Seryozha.