Synopsis

The story of a lone doctor with a bad character, whose back gave out after a courier on a scooter crashed into him. In order not to leave patients without attention and save himself from being fired, he persuaded this same courier, who, as it turned out, had an unfinished medical education, to go on calls in his place. On the calendar, January 1, when life in Russia seems to stand still after New Year's Eve, hospitals are working in a limited mode, and people are suffering from a variety of ailments that the immobilized doctor and his hapless protégé will have to cope with...