Relates how a five year-old girl puts a tiny Christmas tree into a fish bowl on the New Year’s Eve of 1937. Suddenly NKVD officers rush in, to scan the flat, and they start to break the fish bowl to pieces savagely…

2002. A white-haired old woman awakes from the racket of the broken fish bowl and brutal memories.

The film focuses on the aftermath of the drama, with the characters symbolising the contradictory reactions evoked by events.