The film's heroes—the imaginative poet Deniska Korablyov, the mischievous Mishka, the dreamy Lenochka, and the overly curious Alenka—live in an ordinary Moscow courtyard. Like all children, they love the circus and the zoo, but they dislike semolina porridge and the building superintendent, who constantly watches them and prevents them from performing all sorts of circus acts in the courtyard...
