Writer Aglaya Ermolaeva accidentally hits her literature teacher Aleksandr Sergeevich Smirnov, with whom she was madly in love at school, on the road. The teacher miraculously was not injured, but it turns out that he became a victim of scammers, lost his apartment and now has nowhere to live. His son Mitya is soon also left homeless, his wife kicks him out of the house and changes the locks.