Buried alive in garbage, his only hope is a stranger deciding whether to keep her baby.
Taras wakes up in the bowels of a garbage truck under tons of compressed waste. The only chance of salvation is a push-button telephone, on the line is Nastya, a rescue call center worker, who is simultaneously making a decision about what to do with an unwanted pregnancy.
Direction
Trotsenko turns a garbage truck into pure existential horror.
Writing
Parallel desperation — two trapped bodies, one phone line.
Director
Nikita Trotsenko
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film weaponizes its short runtime — you experience Taras's panic in real-time, with no commercial breaks from his suffocation.
Made during Russia's 2024 tightening of abortion restrictions, the parallel between bodily entrapment and bodily control is unmistakably pointed.
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