Russia, 1990s. In an unkempt and dilapidated hospital room, where the window is boarded-up with plywood, a young man lies paralyzed from a spinal fracture suffered in a motorcycle accident. A new patient with the same diagnosis becomes his roommate. It would seem that they have much to share, with both of them lying on their backs 24 hours a day. But, while one has the nurse call button, the other has an exit to a world through a small hole in the plywood. What will they find there?