The film tells about a village located in the Boksitogorsk district of the Leningrad region, whose residents, cut off from the city, have only one mode of transport invented by local craftsmen - a "mad stool" made of iron and moving along a narrow-gauge railway at a speed of 70 km per hour. The film includes the following filming: the movement of villagers on a cart - "mad stool" on the rails, the life of the villagers, the arrival of a car with food in the village, a view of abandoned ancient houses, stories of local residents about their lives (sinhr.).