To a great regret of a school museum’s director and restorer, an artist Berezhkov, who came from town with his wife, the most precious exhibits are stolen from there. All that is known about the criminal is that it was a tall man with a big shoe size. Rude and unconscious moonlighters who build a silo tower, a drunkard seaman who fell behind his ship, a local alcoholic, Squinting Verka, a bit of the last of Mohicans and a certain Sidorov are all among suspects. Who really robbed the museum?