After a suicide attempt, Mārtiņš spends solitary days in the countryside and becomes increasingly lost in his own world. When his friends Dainis and Aleksandrs visit him, it becomes clear that what has happened has broken the closeness that once existed between them— it is hard to make jokes, to remember, to find words and to be with each other. However, they both hope that Mārtiņš has recovered. He sings a song about the futility of resistance to the friends he hasn’t met for a long time…

Director, screenwriter, and editor Začs’ filmography is respectable: several short films, the documentary close-up Presence (2020) he co-directed with Liene Linde, a number of editing credits, in addition receiving a Latvian National Film award Lielais Kristaps for editing the film January (2022). Začs’ latest short film, which commemorates an unforgiving tragedy, is a personal story about the loss of a friend of his. Tackling these same themes of life unravelling and worsening mental health, he is currently working on his feature debut Youth Eternal.