A young Indian newlywed finds his independent wife troublesome and seeks help and advice from his overbearing mother, a supposedly worldly wise friend, an American seeker of enlightenment and a swami.
For the sake of the family, Vyacheslav Lazarev left the big aviation. The usual routine of Lazarev and his son Kolya is disrupted by a small bear cub, huddled in the cockpit of one of the planes. Little Mansur - as Lazarev and the others called him - having escaped from poachers, becomes attached to Lazarev.