If Ivan could only guess what the search for the missing gift of a distant relative would lead to... In the company of a hunchback skate and a candidate for the position of Baba Yaga, he learns about the side of the world of the Earth hitherto hidden from him, encounters the Gorynych Snake, gets into the service of Koschei the Immortal... And trying to understand who he is - Ivan the fool or Ivan the prince?