零城

工程师丽拉金来到了零城一个没有坐标的城市。那里的一切都令人费解。他发现厂长女秘书全身赤裸的坐在桌子后面打字，而来往经过的人谁也不感到奇怪。瓦拉金要求厂长满足他的一项要求，厂长满口答应，不过他说要和总工程师具体接洽，而女秘书告诉瓦拉金，总工程师在8个月前就已经淹死了。瓦拉金来到一家饭店用餐，厨师送上一个人头型的蛋糕，瓦拉金发现，那个“人头”竟和自己的头一模一样。瓦拉金正在惊愕时，厨师突然被打死了。随之而来的进行侦破的检察长告诉瓦拉金，厨师就是他的父亲……An engineer in charge of the production line of a factory in Moscow is sent to a small town to try to specify the distributor the new dimensions of a mechanic part they need. But in this town everybody seems to be crazy (a secretary who works naked, a group of people take the engineer as a rock & roll player, etc) and, in addition, this man is witness of a suicide, so he is trapped inside the town.