This small circle of the satirical novellas by Ilia Ilf and Eugeny Petrov - is a kind of chronicles of the events, which took place and are taking place in the provincial and threadbare town of Kolokolamsk. Because of the strange quirk of fate the citizens of this town - are in the bigger part badly educated, silly and greedy people. All the events and problems with them which come like a bolt from the blue - in the bigger part of cases happen because of the reasons mentioned above.