A chemist by training, Alexandr Bochkin manages a Moscow dry-cleaning operation, but lives a very comfortable life, taking orders on the side for his speculative "private enterprise," run in conjunction with "Queen Margot". But when his old friend from the chemical institute, Yuri Lebedev arrives in Moscow from the Siberian city of Dalnegorsk, along with a traveling companion, Olga, Bochkin becomes uncomfortable with his job title.

Yuriy Yakovlevas Alexander Petrovich Bochkin
Faina Ranevskayaas Margarita Ivanovna, AKA Queen Margot
Nadezhda Rumyantsevaas Galya
Ninel Myshkovaas Olga
Vsevolod Safonovas Yuri Lebedev
Vera Maretskayaas Vasilisa Sergeevna
Rostislav Plyattas Vladimir Gavrilovich Muromtsev
Lyudmila Gnilovaas Gulina
Georgi Tusuzovas Ivan Sergeyevich
Maya Bulgakova