Самыйсокс is a classic example of a provincial town with a patriarchal, sleepy way of life. His Majesty Otis Carmodonsky exiled the disobedient daughter here for a reason—depriving her of the capital’s entertainments. Princess Alvina has a terrible temper. In the town she’s bored, so she amuses herself as she can: by tormenting the aunt she lives with, by showing up in the wrong way at balls and receptions arranged by the local overlord, Duke Ananaks, and even by running around the outskirts in a race with the wind, despite all prohibitions. But the situation changes after the duke’s son Ontario returns from abroad. And it becomes even more complicated when, in Samyysox, the entourage of His Highness Stich Neveriyansky arrives—an invitee invited to the capital of Carmodon to celebrate King Otis’s birthday.