前苏联时期,莫斯科某统计局女局长洛德尼拉·伯洛哥菲耶夫娜·卡卢金娜(Alisa Freyndlikh 饰)业务能力极强,事业为上,而形成鲜明对比的则是她的私人生活,爱情之花迟迟没有绽放。对于这个表情肃穆古板的上司,职员们背地里叫他“冷血动物”。相貌老成的统计员安里多勒· 耶里姆多维奇·诺瓦谢利采夫(Andrey Myagkov 饰)于青年时代便才华横溢,虽然独自辛勤抚养两个孩子,却为人乐观,颇受同事喜爱。对于“冷血动物”,诺瓦谢利采夫自命清高,不愿自贬身价求助卡卢金娜。而在卡卢金娜眼里,诺瓦谢利采夫唯唯诺诺,能力平庸,毫无闪光之处。适逢轻工业处处长职务从缺,诺瓦谢利采夫有心补位,却不得不面对这个难缠的“顶头天敌”。 正所谓不是冤家不聚头,这样性格有着天壤之别的两人,奇妙的爱情竟在彼此心间萌生……Anatoli Yefremovich Novoseltsev works in a statistics institution, whose director is an unattractive and bossy woman. An old friend of his, Yuri Grigorievich Samokhvalov, who gets appointed assistant director of the institution, wants to make Novoseltsev the head of the department but encounters objections from Ludmila Prokopievna Kalugina, the director. Samokhvalov then advises Novoseltsev to lightly hit on the boss. Ironically, Novoseltsev and Kalugina fall in love with each other...