Mendl decided to get rich not out of greed, but out of curiosity. He had made such attempts before, but had failed to get rich. On the contrary, it was possible to live poorer and poorer, so that the only thing Mendl's wife and numerous children dreamed of was "to eat."
Mendl was moved to another attempt to improve his affairs... by the bailiff (Ivan Shchukin), who had already come to describe his furniture again. And then Mendl remembered that his wife's uncle, Sheine (Natalia Asankina), Menashe the Shopkeeper (Semyon Ivanov), a long time ago, when Sheine had just agreed to make Mendl happy, agreed to give a dowry for her. Over time, the promise was forgotten, but the bailiff helped to remember it.
And Mendl decided to go to his uncle in Kabchansk to receive the promised dowry, rightly reasoning that although the money is not much, but if you put it into circulation wisely, his children will always have to "eat" and even still have to "study to be a doctor or lawyer." Said and done: Mendl is on his way. On the way, various funny incidents constantly happen to him.
