SHORT

Two characters discuss business in a restaurant.

Just at the end of the period during which Romania and Germany were allies in WWII, Romanian officers and German officers sit down to lunch.

Obsessed with a general's woman, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.

A 12-year old boy dreams of owning a pigeon but cannot afford the 100 rubles asked for one at the market. So he obtains one by trading his father's stamp album for it. But when he releases the bird into the sky, it returns to its previous owner, who demands another payment for it. Desperate, the boy gives the man his jar of goldfish and his vinyl records. This time, the boy ties a cord to the pigeon's foot before releasing it, but the flight almost kills it. Chastened, the boy climbs onto the roof and sets the bird free.

On a school field trip some boys break a cherry tree and are punished. One of the boys has an overbearing father who believes in hard work and does not see the value in education. The surly father goes to confront the school.