molodoy zhurnalist Charlz Dikkens stal samym populyarnym pisatelem Anglii. Chetvero "nastoyashchikh angliyskikh dzhentl'menov" – mileyshiy Semyuyel Pikvik, vechno popadayushchiy vprosak, prestarelyy romantik Treysi Tapmen, ne napisavshiy ni odnogo stikhotvoreniya "poet" Ogastes Snodgrass i sportsmen-nedotepa Nateniyel Uinkl' – otpravlyayutsya na poiski priklyucheniy...