The Potykayev family lives in Moscow in a large house near the Kiev railway station opposite the Foreign Ministry (although the distance between the Foreign Ministry and the Kiev railway station is one kilometer). Its head - Alexander works as a manager in a company that sells computers. The mother does not work because there are three children in the family: a 17-year-old daughter, a 14-year-old son and a 5-year-old Pasha.

Each series is a finished story. The main place of action is the apartment of this family.