He returns with a large load of purchases, but he is robbed right at the airport. Soon the drummer is issued a foreign passport and he flies abroad. At parting, the man offers the drummer to visit him. The drummer plays on his drum, and his black French colleague plays along with him. The homeless of the two differing countries exchange wisdom, sit at a festive table and give each other presents. From time to time there are police raids in the dump, and once a delegation of French homeless comes accompanied by officials. He escapes from her and settles in a huge dumping ground where the homeless live.
The next day the drummer tries to compose music, but his mundane girlfriend is immersed in everyday life and arranges a washing machine inside the drum.
On the street, he notices a pie with the help of which he is enticed by a young woman who feeds the drummer and leaves him at home, and provides a mat to the drum next to the door. The drummer goes to a diner although he has no money The waitress mistakenly covers the drum with a tablecloth, as a result of which the food comes from other people's plates to the drummer. Noticing that at the subway many people give money to beggars he also starts to stand there with a drum, but all the money he earned is taken away by young people in athletic wear, and when they arrange a shootout, all the rest is taken by a policeman. Having crossed several borders of newly formed post-Soviet states, the drummer after contact with customs officers is left without property, with the exception of the drum. Because of the nightly playing on the drum he is forced to leave the hostel where he lived and go on a journey. Over time the drum begins to behave as an independent creature, and the drummer can no longer part with it. One winter, at a funeral the specter of one of the deceased presents a large drum of Stradivarius as a gift to a drummer playing in the ensemble.
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