The film makes fun of incompetent hack composers who replace real creativity with an unabashed compilation. The goat-composer completes work on a new work, the theme of which is suggested by the Donkey and the Ram. The author's concert of the composer is preceded by the performance of the Gray Wolf-musicologist. He admires the creation of the venerable Goat-fool. But when the animal orchestra performs a slightly modified song "Once upon a time there was a gray goat fool", the audience begins to leave their seats…
Георгий Милляр
as Goat (voice, uncredited)
Сергей Мартинсон
as Donkey (voice, uncredited)
Георгий Вицин
as First hedgehog (voice, uncredited)
Юрий Хржановский
as Second hedgehog (voice, uncredited)
Ростислав Плятт
as Wolf (voice, uncredited)
