The film tells about Alexander Utkin - director, janitor and philosopher. The film uses the following filming: 1 part. Women-janitors clean up garbage in the attic of one of the Moscow houses, smoke in the entrance; a view of a corridor in a communal apartment, A. Utkin appears at the door of his room with a frying pan, A. Utkin is preparing food on the stove in the kitchen, a cat is on a chair, A. Utkin is in the room, talking with a friend (sinhr.); women - friends of A. Utkin, talk about him (sinhr.) Part 2: A. Utkin and his girlfriend Alyonka in the room at the table, commemorating a friend-actor (sinhr.); A. Utkin and his friend Yura are walking along the station platform, talking (sinhr.), A. Utkin hugs a friend, Yura enters the carriage, the conductor stands at the carriage door, Yura looks through the glass; A. Utkin in his room, talking on the phone (sinhr.); A. Utkin comes out of the doorway with a broom, sweeps the courtyard, another janitor sprinkles the courtyard with water from a hose, a panorama of the house in the scaffolding, A. Utkin drives a carriage with garbage; a woman with a child in the kitchen stands at the table, sits down and speaks (sinhr.), A. Utkin talks with a woman in the kitchen (sinhr.). Part 3. Corridor in a communal apartment, a woman walks down the corridor, says a woman with a child in her arms ( sync.), A. Utkin in the garden, lays out Thoreau's cards on the table, children watch what he does with the cards; A. Utkin with the child in her arms on the porch of the terrace, the mother takes the child; a woman is visible in the doorway of the country house, she cuts bread and says something to the child on the street, the meat is fried on a wire rack.