One morning the thief Konstantin Opiatowitsch robs a man in the tram, who turns out to be the Russian literary classic Nikolai Gogol, who has after 170 years returned from the dead. With his bunch of dubious yet charming criminals and dawdlers, Opiatovich tries to make some profit out of the revenant - but Gogol unleashes a nightmare for his kidnappers instead, releasing chaos all over Viljandi.