Before his death, Pasha's father asked to scatter his ashes in his homeland, in Uzbekistan. Kolya is ready to fulfill the last wish of the pope at all costs - even if all the relatives are against it.
The Muscovite family urgently flies to Tashkent. Parents explain such haste to the 12-year-old hero by the need to help his grandfather, who lives in Uzbekistan, with business. The boy saw him only once, in deep childhood, but he remembered that meeting with an eccentric relative well.
