The blacksmith Vakula is going to propose to the beautiful but vain Oksana. Since it is the night before Christmas, the devil is free to roam around and torment people as he pleases, so he decides to find a way to get back at Vakula, because he paints religious art in the village church. Based on Nikolai Gogol's The Night Before Christmas (Ночь пе́ред Рождество́м).