The twenty -four -year -old Dr. Polyakov ( Leonid Bichevin ), a young man with a noble face, dark, so far neatly combed hair, round eyepieces, fucked out obviously in order to seem older, arrives in a great and terrible Russian province. Secretly peeping into medical reference books, he, so far with varying success, cope with inexperience, takes birth, conducts complex operations, amputates his arms and legs and, in general, helps the unlucky provincial people.