In a provincial town on New Year's Eve, a 30-year-old loser, Lyuska, finds a homeless old man in a shabby red coat at a bus stop. After unsuccessful attempts to take him to the hospital or to the police, the compassionate Lyuska delivers the "find" to her home.

Coming to his senses, the sincere old man declares that he is Santa Claus, who fell from a sleigh racing through the sky. Now he can only wait for his granddaughter Snow Maiden to realize that he is not there and start looking for him. Of course, Lucy perceives this statement as nonsense. However, by a strange coincidence, New Year's miracles begin to happen with the appearance of this "Santa Claus" in Lucy's life.