[4] Set in Leningrad in April 1990, the story follows Olga, a journalist who is brutally assaulted by three men—restaurant maître d' Igor, addiction specialist Viktor, and sculptor Sasha—while their fourth companion, Andrei, passively observes.
Selling her diamond earrings, Olga hires a local crime boss named Voldemar, asking him to “punish” her assailants however he sees fit.
In a desperate attempt at appeasement, the men send Andrei to negotiate with Olga, but a confrontation ensues, and she stabs him in self-defense.
In the end, Olga kills Voldemar in her home, haunted by a childhood memory of running to greet her naval officer father, who had gifted her a toy dog.
The film closes with a vision of the young Olga running through the woods, joy replaced by a gunshot and a slow fall, symbolizing her tragic loss of innocence.