The manager of the "Nastenka" cleaning company, which employs Asian immigrants, arrives at the Muscovite Kirillov. The situation gets complicated because Kirillov plans to go to Norway and is expecting a visit from his fiancée, a typical European with uncompromising views of freedom and tolerance. The idea that she might discover that he is exploiting "Oriental women" terrifies him and forces him to scramble in all directions to hide his "harem".