Artem and Tanya are a young couple who split up a few weeks ago. Despite the break-up, they continue to live together in a rented flat and simply cannot bring themselves to move out. Despite the chasm of disappointment and misunderstanding that has opened up between them, strong feelings remain. Yet another row disrupts the unbearable circumstances of their protracted separation. However, the question of ‘how to be together’ hangs over the lovers like an unsettling shadow of insolubility. Trying to answer it, the protagonists spend a long night confined within the apartment. Recalling a past that can never be recaptured and imagining a future that frightens them with its uncertainty, Tanya and Artem long to seize the present, in which they are happy together.
