It was entered into the 12th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Special Prize.

The boy, Leonid, starts to visit the actor's room, which also houses a poor old man, every day.

But in order for the story to continue, the boy has to steal bottles of medicine for the actor, who no longer has any joy in life and plans a suicide.

It is only when the boy falls down and hits his head during one of those occurrences, that the actor realises that life has meaning as long as you have friends.

At the end of the, real and fictional, story, the two resist the villain in the room and hijack his sick bed with a cane.