Anatoly Novoseltsev is a mousy single father and office stumblebum working at a statistics bureau in Moscow. In the hopes of being promoted, he is coaxed into charming his disagreeable and seemingly unfeeling boss, Ludmila Kalugina, or "Meany" as she's otherwise known by her subordinates. Helped by his colleagues Olya and Yura, Anatoly attempts to ease the yoke of Ms. Kalugina, and what follows in the wake of his graceless manoeuvres is completely unforeseen, as he awakens a side to her not yet known, even to herself..

Alisa Freyndlikh
as Lyudmila Prokofievna Kalugina

Andrey Myagkov
as Anatoli Efremovich Novoseltsev

Svetlana Nemolyaeva
as Olga Petrovna Ryzhova

Oleg Basilashvili
as Yuri Grigorievich Samokhvalov

Liya Akhedzhakova
as Verochka

Lyudmila Ivanova
as Shura

Pyotr Shcherbakov
as episode

Nelli Pshyonnaya
as episode

Nadezhda Repina
as episode

Viktor Filippov
as episode