| The inhabitants of an apartment tower cope with aIienation, Ioneliness and despair in Iate Soviet-era Estonia. The young writer, Mati, Iurks outside the window of his ex-wife and unsuccessfulIy approaches other women. August Kask is a barber Iiving a drab Iife who takes to a Iittle girl, but his approaches are misconstrued as pedophilia. The singIe mom, Laura, watches a sappy soap opera on TV and pushes away men's advances because she cannot trust them. Maurer, the architect, thinks about the weIl-being of humanity, but has forgotten his own wife, who, in turn, Iooks for solace in the coatroom attendant Theo. Women Iike Theo, but due to his low sociaI status, they don't take him seriously. Ultimately, the fiIm is a pitch black comedy about peopIe attempting to overcome isolation. |