On August 31, Crocodile Gena returns home by plane, but at the airport, contrary to expectations, Cheburashka did not meet him. Gena gets home himself, but on the way Shapoklyak plays him with a sign on the elevator, and on the door of his apartment with the inscription "Repair". It turns out that Cheburashka, having received a telegram about arrival, could not read it, since he cannot read. Gena announces to Cheburashka that he was very lucky, because tomorrow is just the beginning of the school year - September 1 - and is happy to send him to school.