Ivan Gregori

Imprisoned in an ordinary room, Dr. B. discovers a book on chess after months of isolation. Slowly losing his mind, the prisoner devours the book and replays every game in it. But once he's played through them all, all that remains is a game against himself...

Behind an "automatic" train door is a worker who opens it by hand – again and again, under constant pressure. After hours of monotonous exhaustion, he reaches the limits of his endurance...

When a young student returns home to bid farewell to his dying father, he finds himself trapped in his mother’s growing despair.

At the Mozarteum, aspiring pianist Wertheimer meets the talented Glenn Gould – and with him, the certainty of his own failure.