After a failed job interview, two social outcasts – a man with a bloody knife and a woman on the verge of collapse-get stuck in a skyscraper elevator, where their chaotic confrontation exposes deep fears and a strange connection that leads either to healing through a fantastic escape, or to a therapy session with an unexpected denouement.

SYNOPSIS:

Anton, a young man carrying the weight of childhood trauma, has a frightening ability: he can cut through walls, opening portals to other realities. After another "crossing", which left traces of blood, he finds himself in a faceless business center. Here, in a strange elevator where not all cabins work, and people seem to be clones, he runs into Tanya – a flighty, aggressive, but also vulnerable woman.

Their chance meeting turns into a chaotic, full of conflicts, mutual insults and unexpected moments of laughter, a joint journey on the elevator. Tanya behaves unpredictably: she forbids others to enter, provokes Anton, forces the elevator to go to the last floor. Anton, annoyed and tired, threatens her with a knife (which he really has), then shows involuntary guilt. Gradually, behind the aggression, their general loneliness and fear of the world outside the walls of the building appear.

Tanya offers Anton a crazy bet: if he manages to get down from the 27th floor to the first floor before the elevator, she will fulfill any of his wishes. Anton, instead of running down the stairs, uses his ability. He cuts through the wall in the stairwell and enters an Endless Corridor – a gloomy space littered with countless bodies, including his own replicas of various ages.

In the Corridor, Anton meets his naked double (Anton Two). In a brief, fatal fight, Anton accidentally falls on his own knife and is killed. Anton Two calmly takes his clothes and backpack and goes out the door into the light, reappearing in the business center on the first floor just as the elevator descends with Tanya.

Tanya immediately notices his new shirt. Anton Two openly declares that he teleported and "killed himself at the same time." Tanya, laughing, calls him "more sick than myself", but agrees to his "wish" - to drink coffee (he has no money for more). They leave together.

Finale reveals the shocking truth: the previous scenes were part of a hypnotherapy session. Anton is lying on the psychologist's couch. The psychologist is Tanya. It snaps him out of his trance. Anton wakes up to find a familiar abstract painting in his office-a maze and a metronome. He notices a check on the floor with a child's drawing of the door-a symbol of his injury-and surreptitiously picks it up. The session is over, but Anton's reality is still shaky. He walks away, leaving the viewer with the question: what was real and what was therapy, and what is the true nature of his abilities and connection to Tanya?

GENRE: psychological thriller, fantasy, drama.

TOPICS: Duality of reality, trauma of the past, escape from oneself, the illusion of control, the connection between madness and genius.

TONE: Dark, tense, with a touch of absurdism and surrealism.

RUNNING TIME: ~30 minutes.

REFERENCES: The TV series "Grudge" and "Brassic".

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