Three cynical and emotionally detached aliens arrive on earth on New Year's eve with the mission of exploring and studying human behaviour but inevitably get pulled into a hillarious, nonsensical plot which makes them realize just how wonderful earth life can be with all its quirks, drama and humour.

Це чудова екранізація всіма улюбленого твору безсмертного Миколи Васильовича Гоголя «Ніч перед Різдвом» з циклу «Вечори на хуторі поблизу Диканьки», поставлена Олександром Роу, найталановитішим «майстром кіноказки». Це весела історія про те, як в різдвяну ніч в українському селі поблизу Диканьки всіх поплутав чорт, якого запросила в гості незабутня пані Солоха, про те, як коваль Вакула, осідлавши біса, зумів привезти своїй коханій Оксані «черевички», взявши їх у самої цариці в Петербурзі.

It is the New Year's Eve and the employees of an Economics Institute are ready with their annual New Year's entertainment program. It includes a lot of dancing and singing, jazz band performance and even magic tricks. Suddenly, an announcement is made that a new director has been elected and that he is arriving shortly. Comrade Ogurtsov arrives in time to review and disapprove of the scheduled entertainment. To him, holiday fun has a different meaning. He imagines speakers reading annual reports to show the Institute's progress over the year, and, perhaps, a bit of serious music, something from the Classics, played by the Veterans' Orchestra. Obviously, no one wants to change the program a few hours before the show, much less to replace it with something so boring! Now everyone has to team up in order to prevent Ogurtsov from getting to the stage. As some of them trap Ogurtsov one way or another, others perform their scheduled pieces and celebrate New Year's Eve.

The movie is about an old disabled lady who lives with her spinster daughter. The lady desperately wants her daughter to marry, and the daughter, driven by the supposed imminent death of her mother, invites a total stranger home and introduces him as her boyfriend. The man and the prospective mother-in-law eventually start to like each other, and he makes every effort to be liked by the daughter. With the intervention of a fantasy granddaughter, quasi-miraculous healing, and a lot of hilarious repartee in between, the movie has a happy ending.

Two families are trying to fix their problems during the celebration of the New Year.

Пішли друзі в лазню попаритися, за традицією змити з себе все погане, щоб зустріти Новий Рік чистими, а «напарилися» до такої міри, що відправили до Ленінграду не того.