Crush

A person loses something very important. A friend who was always there, who was ready to help and support in these difficult times. A friend who couldn't be saved. A friend who is being buried in tears, and then remembered over a drunken feast with kind words. This friend is a TV.

Two small-town actors are heading Moscow to an audition for Helya's and Victor's parts in "Warsaw Melody" by Leonid Zorin. As they drive, they rehearse their parts.

Lonely and eccentric resident of panel building, who keeps eye on order in stairwell, stumbles upon wrongly placed missing cat poster for cat named Bubbles. He decides to tear it down, but poster reappears again and again. This struggle against disorder becomes his routine, until one day poster disappears.

In a Russian country house, two boys, Anton and Zhenya, shoot air rifles at bottles. Anton suddenly fires at a cat, shocking Zhenya. Their friendship becomes strained. That evening, Anton's father takes them to the river and recalls his own childhood, when he built a forest shelter together with a friend. As night falls, Anton tries to reconcile, but Zhenya rejects his friendship. The next day, at the bus stop, they part without speaking, their silence filled with unspoken tension and guilt.