Set in 1962 Soviet Union. A Soviet Army general (Porechenkov) is manipulated by his aging mother into marrying someone in a hurry. After meeting and sleeping with several women the general goes for a beautiful flight attendant, but she and people around her make him too many problems causing him mishaps, misunderstandings and confusions. So he gives up and asks a complete stranger to marry him, just to please his mother. This is obviously a bad match, but the general, still under his mother's spell, cannot see the truth, until his best friend comes to help...