Young provincial amateur drivers Telescope and Zhora dream of becoming professional motorists. Having assembled a car from trash spare parts they set off to Moscow and soon run into a charlatan juggler, pretending to be a Professor, and his cousin Fenechka. Since that moment the main characters are in for an incessant adventure. Finally the Professor – with a certain aid of the motorists – ends up at a criminal police station, while the young men together with Fenechka join the all-Union motor race and are the first to enter the capital…