Based on the novel by Charles de Coster "The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere."
A new geography teacher, Maria Vladimirovna Nesterova, arrives in a rural village with her young daughter, Katya. They are given a ride by Fyodor Semyonovich Barinev, a local collective farm driver.