A young naive young man comes from the provinces to St. Petersburg. The views of the young man, his life position is idealistic, he is a maximalist. He believes that real, big and pure love is only once in a lifetime, that you need to think about the high and beautiful, and not about the career. Calculation and pragmatism seem to him baseness ...

And nevertheless, he is already in St. Petersburg. Here he meets with his uncle, a businessman who knows the value of everything ... How much the views of the many seeing uncle and his naive nephew differ greatly! Will the young man become as clever and calculating as his uncle when he grows up?