曾经的首席贵族伊波利特·沃洛比亚尼诺夫在苏维埃时代过得穷困潦倒,然而他的命运突然发生了转变——岳母在临终前告诉他,她把许多钻石藏进了12把家具椅子中的一把。然而12把椅子已被充公,并四散在苏联各处。沃洛比亚尼诺夫和获知秘密的骗术大师奥斯塔普·本德尔于是开始了寻找椅子的旅程……A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs they once ...