The action of the comedy unfolds on the eve of the next parliamentary elections . Local voters with the mayor in charge are alarmed: it seems that only one party will be represented in their provincial district in the elections, for the absence of other candidates. At all costs, it is necessary to create an opposition, because the absence of it means the absence of bribery of voters. The very idea of such “distress” leads local residents to indignation: after all, pre-election bribes are a reliable and habitual source of income. And now the inhabitants of the "rotten town" under the leadership of the authorities go in search of a candidate who could quickly build up and lead the opposition, and in the elections - to speak on its behalf. And the choice falls on Don Quixote. Well, that he is crazy! After all, he does not sit in Bedlam, therefore, "madness" does not matter ... And, of course, love, how without it .