The film’s protagonists work at a provincial theatre. Alla, the wife of the chief administrator, goes to see a young actress named Nonna—nicknamed ‘Chicken’—in the hope of catching her in bed with her husband. However, in Nonna’s bed, Alla finds the theatre’s chief director. Word gets round that the chief director is planning to marry the aspiring actress, and this leads to some rather comical and tragic consequences. All the men who are in love with the pretty Nonna have a showdown with one another.