Ivan Petrovich Pastukhov at the end of the summer goes from Moscow on vacation to Sochi on his own Volga car, but does not know how to drive well and travels with a personal chauffeur - a bachelor Savrasov who dreams of marrying a nurse. Pastukhov send his wife by train, as she is swayed in the car. The attack of acute radiculitis, which suddenly hit the driver on vacation, becomes the beginning of the adventures of chief Pastukhov, who has to personally face the consequences of his working bureaucracy.