Forty-year-old researcher Pavel is still single. And not because he likes to be free and unmarried, but because he is very indecisive - he does not know how to meet girls. Pavel?s parents are sounding the alarm - they really want to give their son "in good hands" and see their grandchildren. But he doesn?t like those girls whom Pavel?s mother is wooing. And then one day a master takes over - a cheerful, battered and excessively sociable brother of Pavel - Gennady. He has in his arsenal one effective way to get acquainted with any girl he likes, to interest her in his persona. Gennady is getting into a rage so much that he almost gets married, forgetting about the watchful wife, who always stands guard over their long marriage...