The story of the path to success of the young circus animal trainer Kurikhin and his complicated relationship with his teacher, the old tamer Lesnov, a conservative man who doesn't quite like the youth's ways.
Fire, given by a mysterious figure, creates a hole in the world through which something terrible enters and leaves the world burned and overrun by strange insect figures.
A loony farmer finds a prehistoric monster hiding in a cavern on his land. To feed his newest critter, the farmer kidnaps three people. The three desperately try to escape and finally, one of them succeeds.