The spotlight of the story is a withdrawn existence of mountain village inhabitants. Fyodor is a butcher, a man with the past. But he has neither present nor future. In the same village there is a mental hospital. Its head administration is a black market and organ dealers. Among the patients there is a granddaughter of a war veteran, who is deprived of his house in exchange for her freedom. His belongings are ruined. He is starving... To take the donkey to the slaughterhouse is the last chance to survive. By chance the girl meets the butcher. But she knows that she is going to die. The butcher feels his coming death as well. They are scared. They both have stories to tell.