Levon Asatryan

Pensioner Levon Poghosyan flew to Moscow from Armenia to congratulate his grandson on his first day of school. And it doesn't matter at all that Levon is already at an advanced age and terminally ill. The main thing is to bring joy to loved ones and new acquaintances, of whom there are many in this big, noisy city...

Armenian village at the beginning of the 20th century. Local policeman suspects clown and ropewalker Simon in aiding Bolshevik revolutionaries. Annoyed by constant surveillance of the police, cheery Simon leaves the village for Yerevan. There he's taken to prison by accident, where he still entertains and become friends with many people some Bolsheviks among of them.