Stavl Zosimov
Coronavirus

CHAPTER 1

Spring. 2020.

In the office of the director of the company, the director himself, Sergey Ivanovich Zinoviev (55), and Yaroslav's mother, Elena Gennadievna Mudraya (38), in a strict suit.

DIRECTOR

Elena Gennadievna, how long have you been working as our chief economist?

YAROSLAV'S MOTHER

Five years?!

DIRECTOR

Five years… It's a decent length of time, and it doesn't fall under the reduction.

YAROSLAV'S MOTHER

I'll dare to ask, Sergey Ivanovich, but why are you doing this?

DIRECTOR

We've been given a directive from above to reduce our office by 10%. You're not being laid off. But we're falling behind on our quarterly targets, so you'll have to work even more hours for the same salary.

YAROSLAV'S MOTHER

(surprised)

It's strange, of course… And this applies to everyone?

DIRECTOR

Nothing strange, just a simple formality. Our debit and credit again did not match for the last quarter. Our expenses exceed gross income.

MOTHER OF YAROSLAV

I know this very well… This is my job, but if it were not for your constant corporate parties with clients, then we would have everything

YAROSLAV'S MOTHER

No… But I ask to name the reason why I should pay for it?

DIRECTOR

And you don't know… In my opinion, everything is obvious. You don't want to continue a close relationship with me. As soon as I received the appointment five years ago and all, began to distance itself from me.

YAROSLAV'S MOTHER

But you probably forgot that I have a husband, and you have a wife.

The director shrugs.

DIRECTOR

My decision is final and only you can change it.

Mother looks at the director in a daze.

YAROSLAV'S MOTHER

In my opinion, when I was mistaken about you, you assured me that I was the only one, and it turned out that you told the same thing to half of the HR and accounting staff… You are a cable and I am quitting.

Yaroslav's mother gets up and goes to the door.

DIRECTOR

I want to remind you, Elena Gennadievna, that our company paid for your last education, and according to the contract, you have to work for two more years.

YAROSLAV'S MOTHER

May you die, you blackmailer…

Inside the post, the head of security is sitting and in front of him is Yaroslav's father, Valery Semenovich the Wise (42).

HEAD OF SECURITY

Listen, Valery Semenovich, you already for dolbalas me with your excuses … You again slept on the post and from the gelding pulled the wheels.

YAROSLAV'S FATHER

Come on, Petrovich, to drive. I took over the post, and already this tochila was without wheels. Your son and I went on a tour together, and he handed over each car to me.

The head of the facility explodes emotionally and points to the log.

HEAD OF SECURITY

Where is this recorded? Where in the log of acceptance and surrender of the facility – is it there? Where, show me? Or do you think I'm balls fucking?

Father of Yaroslav

Well… somehow everything was on trust before… We didn't record the previous shifts either… Look, the jeep has a cracked window in the 17th spot! It's been cracked for years, so why keep pointing it out? Especially since your son said the owner took the wheel off himself…

CHIEF OF SECURITY

Why? Are you a fool? Or do you think I'm a fool?

YAROSLAV'S FATHER

No, Ignatiy Petrovich…

CHIEF OF SECURITY

All right, I'm tired of your constant mistakes… You're fired, and your salary will cover the missing wheels of this Lamborghini.

YAROSLAV'S FATHER

Petrovich, what's the matter? I have a family, don't I?

The boss gets up from his chair.

CHIEF OF SECURITY

I've said everything, get the fuck out of here before you're carried out on a stretcher…

Yaroslav's father can't take it anymore and punches the facility manager in the face with all his might. The manager falls back and crashes into his chair. Yaroslav takes the day's earnings from the table and leaves the booth. He turns around for a moment.

YAROSLAV'S FATHER

By the way, your Mousya, takes a great bite.

The bell rings and all the students go from the classrooms to the corridor. Vasilis(13) catches up with YAROSLAV(13) and hangs on his neck from behind. Yaroslav reacts aggressively. Vasilis laughs and runs away from him. A cowardly classmate Gena, nicknamed Cabbage(13), passes by.

VASILIS

OH?! Cabbage is coming… Give it to me, Yarik… it's… I'll stream it on the internet, and you'll hype it up?!

YAROSLAV

There's no bazaar, Vasya, he's been bombing me all my life, this guy…

VASILY

Let's get some lois, we can rip it up… It's… all the Sisyos will be ours…

Vasily takes out his smartphone and signals to Yaroslav. Yaroslav kicks Gena in the ass.

YAROSLAV

Goal!!!

Gena can't stand it and pushes Yaroslav away, then continues on.

GENA

Are you crazy?

YAROSLAV

Oh, Cabbage can talk…

VASILY

We need to prove it to the biology teacher, and we'll get a Nobel prize…

Yaroslav kicks Gena's ass again. Gena jumps back and kicks Yaroslav in the face. Yaroslav stops.

VASILY (continuing)

What the hell is this?

YAROSLAV

Who do you think you're picking on, Pinch?

Yaroslav punches Gena in the eye and performs a kick. Gena falls to the floor and curls up into a ball. Yaroslav begins to kick him with cruelty. Immediately, a crowd of students with smartphones gather around, and everyone is filming Yaroslav kicking Gena. The teachers quickly approach and try to get into the center of the circle. The crowd does not let them in.

THE HEAD TEACHER

Look at what they're doing!

THE TEACHER

Let me pass…

THE PE PEACEMAKER

I'll pass, Tamara Petrovna…

The PE teacher makes his way to the center of the event and pulls Yaroslav away from Gena. He puts Gena back on his feet. Everyone disperses. The teacher takes Gena away.

PE TEACHER (continuing)

(to Vasilisa)

Put the camera away…

(to Yaroslav)

What are you doing, you monster. Why don't you try me? Or do you only hit the weak?

YAROSLAV

What, did you get a break, pedophile Vsyaty? Hands off! I'm gonna text my dad, he'll be here in a minute, he'll tear your ass apart…

VASILY

He'll tear it apart, Kirill Stepanych. He's a former special forces soldier, he's shell-shocked…

The gym teacher lets go of Yaroslav. The headmaster looks at him sternly.

So, Yaroslav the Wise… I won't tolerate grandfathering in my school. Tomorrow, I'll bring your parents to the principal's office. The issue of your expulsion from school will be raised…

YAROSLAV

But they can't come tomorrow…

PROFESSOR

Why is that?

YAROSLAV

Have you been sniffing bribes, Babetsl? Troll someone else… They work to pay you money for all sorts of things, like your dacha…

PHYSICAL TRAINING TEACHER

(furious)

Are you talking to the deputy principal?

DEPUTY PRINCIPAL

The money is not given to me, but to the school… And as for their release?! It's nothing, it's solvable… I'll call their management to release them from work without pay. And I'll also inform them in writing that a juvenile inspector will be present… And you, Kirill Stepanovich, go to class. The bell has already rung…

VASILY

Wow, I'm in trouble…

HEADMASTER

And you, Poroshenko, will also appear, but without your parents…

VASILY

What about me?

HEADMASTER

For your company, and for your broadcasts on the Internet, which undermine the authority of our school… For today, I'm releasing you, Wise, from classes, and I will allow you only after the decision of the parental pedagogical council.

VASILY

Can I go too?

THE HEAD TEACHER

Yes, but only for a lesson… And the sooner, the better for you…

Yaroslav's father enters the apartment. Yaroslav's mother approaches him from the kitchen. She has a questioning look. The father undresses slowly and looks at her with remorse.

YAROSLAV'S FATHER

That bastard fired me after all…

YAROSLAV'S MOTHER

And how will we live from now on? I've also submitted an application to the board of directors…

Yaroslav's grandmother, Iraida Panteleimonova (65), enters the corridor.

YAROSLAV'S GRANDMOTHER

Well, no one is taking my pension yet… So let's tighten our belts and make do somehow… Vegetarian-style…

CHAPTER 2

Yaroslav is standing among a small number of people. A tram approaches and opens the doors. Yaroslav is the first to approach the door. Passengers are getting out of the doors. Yaroslav is breaking into the cabin without giving way.

PASSENGER EXITING

Where are you breaking in? Let the passengers get out first.

YAROSLAV

Fuck you…

PASSENGER ENTERING

You've lost all shame…

In the kitchen, Grandmother Yaroslava Iraida and her neighbor Elizaveta Fominichna (70) are drinking tea.

ELIZAVETA FOMINICHNA

Iraida Panteleimonovna, you don't come to see me very often, my friend.

GRANDMOTHER YAROSLAVA

Oh, Elizaveta Fominichna, my joints are hurting, and my heart is giving me trouble. Yesterday, they measured my blood pressure, and it was 200/120. I had to call an ambulance to lower my blood pressure.

Yaroslav is standing among a small number of people. A tram approaches and opens the doors. Yaroslav is the first to approach the door. Passengers are getting out of the doors. Yaroslav is breaking into the cabin without giving way.

PASSENGER EXITING

Where are you breaking in? Let the passengers get out first.

YAROSLAV

Fuck you…

PASSENGER ENTERING

You've lost all shame…

In the kitchen, Grandmother Yaroslava Iraida and her neighbor Elizaveta Fominichna (70) are drinking tea.

ELIZAVETA FOMINICHNA

Iraida Panteleimonovna, you don't come to see me very often, my friend.

GRANDMOTHER YAROSLAVA

Oh, Elizaveta Fominichna, my joints are hurting, and my heart is giving me trouble. Yesterday, they measured my blood pressure, and it was 200/120. I had to call an ambulance to lower my blood pressure.

ELIZAVETA FAMINICHNA

But your, that is, boarding school, let them ask in gugile. And he will give you the right article…

GRANDMOTHER YAROSLAVA

And what, so it is possible?

ELIZAVETA FAMINICHNA

Of course… In boarding school, everything is… My son even found a job. Called, on the remote, sitting at home for days on the computer and earns… And not bad, I tell you…

GRANDMOTHER YAROSLAVA

And mine still can't make ends meet… Here's the both of them from work.

ELIZAVETA FAMINICHNA

In the Bible's prophecy of the end of the world by John the Evangelist, before the second coming, CHAPTER 6, verse 8, it says: And I looked, and behold, a pale horse, and he that sat on him had the name "Death"; and Hell followed with him; and power was given to him over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth. And at the end of the chapter: For the great day of His wrath is come, and who can stand?

GRANDMOTHER YAROSLAVA

Come on, Fominichna… Every generation says the same thing: the end of the world, Armageddon, but life goes on.

ELIZABETH FAMINICHNA

You were a communist, Iraida Pantelemonovna, and you still are. But every night I read a chapter or two before going to bed and I'm horrified… That's what's happening now. For example, in the fourth book of Kings, in chapter 3, verses 1 to 27: The allied war of the Kings – Joram of Israel, Jehoshaphat of Judah, and the King of Edom against the Moabites, that is. Russians… The whole world wants to destroy our country… Isn't that right?

GRANDMOTHER YAROSLAVA

It's all a lie, they wrote the Bible to get more money from the people… They're already opening Orthodox restaurants. The very word "restaurant" is a symbol of fornication…

ELIZABETTA FAMINICHNA

It's their sin, so the apocalypse will happen, and only the chosen ones will remain… I feel, Iraida, that a rebellion is coming, and first they'll lock everyone in their homes, just like under Stalin. Everyone will be afraid…

GRANDMOTHER YAROSLAVA

Come on, Fominichna. Even in the USSR, the Iron Curtain was only on the outside… and you could go wherever you wanted in the country. And when you arrived, they would provide you with housing and a job. It's not like now…

ELIZAVETA FOMINICHNA

That's true… I had a dream last night, and my late husband, Peter, was sitting next to you. I sit down with you, and he takes your hands, and you leave.

GRANDMOTHER YAROSLAVA

Come on, Elizaveta… I only knew your Peter by his photo… We met after he died?!

ELIZAVETA FAMINICHNA

I'm thinking the same thing…

БАБУШКА ЯРОСЛАВА

Пугаешь ты меня, Елизавета Фоминична, ой как пугаешь…

Yaroslav is sitting in a wheelchair. A passenger, an old lady with a cane, approaches. Yaroslav turns his head and pretends to be asleep.

PASSENGER WOMAN

(to Yaroslav)

Young man, make room for the old lady…

PASSENGER MAN

Oh, he's pretending to be asleep…

The passenger man pushes Yaroslav's shoulder.

PASSENGER MAN(continuing)

Hey, get up… Stop pretending. I was just looking out the window.

PASSENGER GRANDMOTHER

Oh, don't wake me up. I'll just stand here, it won't take long…

PASSENGER WOMAN

How can this be?! He has no conscience.

Yaroslav opens his eyes.

YAROSLAV

Stop pushing me, uncle…

PASSENGER MAN

I gave up my seat for you, you're sitting in a wheelchair…

YAROSLAV

Why, I paid for this seat.

The man takes him by the collar and tries to remove him from the seat.

YAROSLAV(continuing)

(hysterically)

Oh, old man, get your hooves off, you pedophile… Help!! The pedophile is getting off!!

PASSENGER MAN

What are you yelling about, who's touching you? What kind of pedophile am I?

YAROSLAV

You'll have to explain that to the cops…

Everyone saw you hitting on me…

PASSENGER GRANDMOTHER

Let him go, don't touch him.

PASSENGER WOMAN

What a rude generation we have…

YAROSLAV

Generation Z…

Everyone is leaving Yaroslav behind. Yaroslav happily looks out the window.

The father is sitting on a chair in the hall and looking for a job in the local newspaper. Yaroslav comes into the hall from school.

YAROSLAV'S FATHER

(gently)

Well, son, how are things at school and take out the trash, I guess?

YAROSLAV

(sarcastically)

Things are going well with the prosecutor, and now we have a social worker at school, so you can't send me, your son, to take out the trash, go to the store, or do any other work.

YAROSLAV'S FATHER

What are you talking about? And what will your social worker do to me for this?

YAROSLAV

They'll take away my parental rights.

YAROSLAV'S FATHER

Well, then go and pack your things.

YAROSLAV

Why is that?

YAROSLAV'S FATHER

(with irony)

Well, if your social worker takes away my mother's parental rights for this, then you will be taken to an orphanage, and not us will be kicked out of the apartment. And in the orphanage you will be turned from a boy into a girl… Cool?

Yaroslav looks at his father in a daze, without a joke, takes a trash full bucket and runs into the corridor. The sound of the front door.

YAROSLAV'S FATHER(continuing)

That's right, smarty-pants…

CHAPTER 3

In the kitchen, grandmother and father are sitting at the table. Mother pours food.

YAROSLAV'S FATHER

Yaroslav, come have breakfast.

YAROSLAV'S MOTHER

Why shout, go and call.

YAROSLAV'S GRANDMOTHER

Young, still sleeping.

Mother sits down at the table.

YAROSLAV'S MOTHER

Well, Valery, did you find anything?

YAROSLAV'S FATHER

It's all wrong. Everywhere there are cuts or they require a resume with contacts from previous jobs… and they are shitty.

YAROSLAV'S MOTHER

We need to think of something. We clearly won't have enough even for a normal existence.

YAROSLAV'S GRANDMOTHER

And my pension? The floor, after all, is a constant stable income.

YAROSLAV'S FATHER

Yes, half the country lives like this, on their parents' pensions.

YAROSLAV'S MOTHER

I don't want to live like this. Yaroslav was expelled from a public school, and now we have to pay for his education as well.

YAROSLAV'S FATHER

Why? He's learned to write and read, and now he's going to be a security guard like me?!

YAROSLAV'S MOTHER

Are you out of your mind? In the security go those who were kicked out of normal jobs. Second-class, and my son will not start his adult life this way.

YAROSLAV'S GRANDMOTHER

So maybe Yaroslav himself will decide where to go or straight to the factory?!

YAROSLAV'S MOTHER

Mom, just don't instill Yarik with your Soviet principles. Nowadays, it's prestigious for a child to study at a lyceum instead of hanging out in alleyways. In our office, only my son attends a crappy school.

YAROSLAV'S FATHER

So what do you want from me?

YAROSLAV'S MOTHER

I want you to search for a decent job as energetically as you eat. And you eat for two.

The father throws down his cutlery and leaves the kitchen. Yaroslav comes in and looks at his mother and grandmother with a pitiful expression. His grandmother immediately smiles at him.

YAROSLAV

What's all the noise and no fighting?

YAROSLAV'S GRANDMOTHER

Hello, grandson… Have you washed up? Sit down and have some breakfast.

Yaroslav sits down at the table. His mother gets up and serves him some food.

YAROSLAV

I heard there's a shortage of money.

YAROSLAV'S MOTHER

Go ahead, it's none of your business.

Yaroslav is sitting at the computer and presses on the two-sided printing and clicks on the print. The printer starts working and out of it come colored sheets with several banknotes of different denominations. Father comes into Yaroslav's room.

Father of Yaroslav

Son, what I thought?! And what are you printing? Money? Are you a fool or what?

Father presses the "STOP" button and gives his son a slap on the back of the head. Yaroslav's mother and grandmother run over to the cry.

YAROSLAV'S MOTHER

What happened?

YAROSLAV'S FATHER

Here, look at this. They were yelling in the morning that there wasn't enough money? Yarik solved the problem. Hop and printed a couple of million.

YAROSLAV'S GRANDMOTHER

Well, he's still a child. It's good that he cares about his family.

YAROSLAV'S FATHER

Yes? Playing? And then go to the store to buy?!

And you know that the cops don't give a fuck if he's playing or not?! Article 186, from 5 to 8 years of imprisonment and a fine – 1,000,000 rubles. How is it?

YAROSLAV

Yes, what are you buzing like a dinosaur. I'm what, in your opinion, a noob? You can exchange them at the black market. Or at the baker's.

YAROSLAV'S FATHER

Che? You shut up in general, you are a minor and from you, as with a goose water. And to pay for us with mother…

YAROSLAV'S MOTHER

Yes do not shout at your son… Come to me, Yaroslav.

YAROSLAV'S GRANDMOTHER

Valera, well, forgive Iago, he is not with evil. Just need to explain that this way money will not earn. Sho is a crime and for this punish.

Father Yaroslav

All, I take the cord from the printer, and if something like this, then and the cord from the computer will take…

Father takes the network cord from the printer and leaves the room.

Father Yaroslav

Businessman, your mother…

The whole family: father, mother and grandmother sitting in the hall and watching TV. Yaroslav is sitting in the hall and playing computer games on his smartphone.

DICTOR TV

Due to the increasing number of Coronavirus cases, the government has decided to impose a self-isolation regime on all segments of the population. In addition, the following measures must be taken: Cancellation of mass events. Closure of parks, squares, and public places. Suspension of restaurants, cinemas, sports clubs, and shopping malls. Transition of schools and universities to distance learning. Operation of kindergartens in the mode of duty groups. Parents must show a certificate stating that they continue to go to work. Prohibition of foreigners entering and leaving the country. Mandatory 14-day quarantine for citizens returning home from another country or region. Introduction of a mask regime and social distancing… Pensioners and patients with chronic diseases are at particular risk.

YAROSLAV'S FATHER

Are they crazy? How am I supposed to find a job now?

YAROSLAV'S MOTHER

You shouldn't have wasted it.

YAROSLAV

So they can't expel me from school during the quarantine period?!

YAROSLAV'S FATHER

You get it.

YAROSLAV'S GRANDMOTHER

The main thing is that there's no war… It's been a long time since we've been together, and now…

YAROSLAV'S MOTHER

(interrupting)

And now we're going to eat each other. We've been avoiding each other. Every conversation ends in a scandal, and now we're spending days together…

YAROSLAV'S FATHER

It'll be fine, Len. Maybe we've been fighting because we haven't seen each other enough.

Vasilisa is sitting at the computer, watching a video by a blogger in a police uniform.

BLOGGER

Hi, friends and again with you I, Blogger Zeth. And I'm in the form of a law enforcement officer. Why? You will see at the end of… All heard about the introduction of the authorities of the regime of self-isolation?! More precisely, we all drove like cattle in a stall, at home. And this prison quarantine has been going on for almost two months. This is a violation of our constitutional rights of freedom of movement. And I suggest taking part in a mass rally called ANTI-QUARANTINE, with the slogan: Let's give freedom of movement and parties. We are not cattle!!! And remember, free cheese only goes to mousetraps, so everyone who comes to the rally will receive a prize in the form of a lapsh… You'll ask, how much? I'll tell you, enough to get into the party and get out of it… So, everyone to the rally! The word "rally" is so creepy. The party. If you don't go to this party, you'll have to sniff the bera, kitten. And this party is the party of all parties! And don't forget to like and subscribe to the video to stay up-to-date with everything that's been, is, and will be happening… and this is to warm you up before the party on the square.

The blogger angrily tears off his police badges and epaulettes and throws them brutally into the camera.

VASILISK

He's just gorgeous… I need to send it to Yarik. Let him check it out.

He copies the link and sends it to Yaroslav.

CHAPTER 4

A guy and a girl wearing masks and carrying four bags full of basic necessities get out of the elevator and approach the door of Yaroslav's apartment. They place the bags on the floor and ring the doorbell. Yaroslav's grandmother opens the door.

GUY VOLUNTEER

Hello, Iraida Pantelemonovna. Here, we've brought you the groceries according to the list.

YAROSLAV'S GRANDMOTHER

Hello, my dears. Oh, thank you, dear. What would we do without you?! How much do I owe you?

VOLUNTEER GIRL

No, no. We are volunteers, you know, and we do it just from the heart.

GRANDMOTHER YAROSLAVA

But you are wasting your time? And every work must be paid.

VOLUNTEER BOY

Don't worry. You are old and can't move around the city. And it is difficult for us to sit in isolation, because we are young. So they offered their services as volunteers.

ДЕВУШКА ВОЛОНТЕР

Especially since you, as a pensioner, are at risk. And people like you need to be helped first.

YAROSLAVA'S GRANDMOTHER

Well, thank you, dear, for your concern… Is there anyone out there?

YAROSLAVA'S BOYFRIEND

Yes, of course, you're allowed to go to the store… There are a lot of homeless people. No one bothers them at all. They live in their own element.

YAROSLAVA'S GIRLFRIEND

The police catch and fine those who walk.

BABUSHKA YAROSLAVA

Is it really so serious?

GIRL VOLUNTEER

Well, the fines were introduced recently. Not everyone can stay in their apartment for so long. That's why they find ways to break out of their confinement. The main thing is to maintain social distancing and wear masks.

BOY VOLUNTEER

For example, we deliver essential goods to single pensioners…

GIRL VOLUNTEER

And the payment is freedom of movement, and live communication with you.

GRANDMOTHER YAROSLAVA

And when will this quarantine end?

GIRL VOLUNTEER

As soon as they find a vaccine for the coronavirus…

GUY VOLUNTEER

You will forgive us Irada Pantelemonovna, but we are still waiting.

YAROSLAV'S GRANDMOTHER

Yes, yes, thank you very much… Run. I will take it myself…

The volunteers leave in the elevator, and Father Yaroslav takes all the food in the corridor. The door closes.

Yaroslav lies on his bed and starts to doze off, then in his sleep he turns over on the bed and puts his hand in the air on a chair standing next to the bed. There is a signal of an incoming message. Yaroslav sits down at the computer and reads the homework sent. He sees that he also received a message from his friend Vasilis. Yaroslav opens the letter.

VASILIS (SUBTITRE)

Hi, Yarik. Check out the proofs… The whole school is going to a rally tomorrow against the quarantine – it's a violation of our human rights, which the fucking government has come up with to drive the people like cattle to their apartments. So that everyone sits and doesn't talk. And also, Zet says that they give you money…

YAROSLAV (SUBTITRE)

And do you believe that they will give you money?

Yaroslav sends his message. Vasilis responds.

VASILIS(SUBTITRE)

Well, if they don't pay, we'll stream the party… And we'll get a lot of likes again.

YAROSLAV (SUBTITRE)

Aren't you afraid of getting in trouble with your parents?

VASILIS(SUBTITRE)

What, did you chicken out?

YAROSLAV(SUBTITRE)

Yeah, I didn't shit my pants. First of all, how are we going to get out of here?

VASILY(SUBTITRE)

Yeah, there are a lot of options. Like, taking out the trash or going to the store… So, I'll be waiting for you outside. Just let me know when you're ready.

In the morning, Yaroslav comes to the kitchen after breakfast and looks at the trash can. It's half empty. He takes it and loosens the contents. It's almost full.

YAROSLAV

Ma, Pa, Ba, I'm going to throw away the trash.

YAROSLAV'S MOTHER (behind the scenes)

What, is it full already?

YAROSLAV

Almost and it starts to stink.

YAROSLAV'S FATHER (behind the scenes)

Aren't you lying?

YAROSLAV

Why would I be?

YAROSLAV'S GRANDMOTHER (behind the scenes)

What are you constantly biting the kid for? Just don't forget the mask.

YAROSLAV

Ba, why do I need a mask in the entrance? I'm only going to the trash and back…

Yaroslav goes out to the entrance.

Yaroslav leaves the apartment, approaches and calls the elevator. Waiting nervously for it. The elevator comes and the doors open. Yaroslav gets into the elevator.

Yaroslav takes out his smartphone and makes a call on the messenger to Vasilis. He responds in kind.

Yaroslav gets out of the elevator, hides the bucket behind the elevator at the garbage disposal and runs out into the street.

Yaroslav runs out of the entrance and almost runs over the arrived doctors, in anti-bacterial suits of PPE.

FELSHER

Be careful, young man. And why are you without a mask?

Yaroslav stops and looks at them in fright. The nurse takes a medical mask out of her pocket and gives it to Yaroslav. Yaroslav takes it and puts it on. Vasilis comes up from behind and pokes Yaroslav. Yaroslav flinches in surprise.

VASILIS

Why are you twitching? Oh! It looks like a cow's saddle on you…

Yaroslav tears the mask off his face and throws it away.

YAROSLAV

Yeah, well, let the batans wear…

VASILY

Well, all, time, we're late.

YAROSLAV

Where, on vpisku?

VASILY

No. For babosami. Shch'a all the cabbage will give away while you chukhsya…

And they run from the yard.

CHAPTER 5

There are a lot of people on the square. Most of them are without masks and are of school age. At the entrance to the square, there are volunteers distributing medical masks. Yaroslav and Vasilis ignore them and walk into the crowd without masks. A man stops them and gives them each five hundred rubles.

YAROSLAV

What for?

MAN

It's a thank-you, buy yourself a belyash with soda… Or something else?!

Yaroslav and Vasilis walk deeper into the crowd.

VASILIS

This is, apparently, the dough for participation in the party.

YAROSLAV

Something this paladin kropal gave, probably squeezed himself half.

VASILIS

Well, can you presanut him?!

YAROSLAV

Yeah, in such a crowd, where will you find him now? Here you have to slomitsya… What are you not streaming?

An elderly man comes out to the podium with a megaphone and begins to humiliate the current government. Police units with transparent shields appear and immediately block the entrance to the administration building.

GUY

(to Yaroslav)

Here, take the bag of eggs…

YAROSLAV

Why?

GUY

You'll throw it at the cops…

VASILIS

What did he give you, show me?

YAROSLAV

He says, "When they start throwing, you should throw too."

VASILIS

Give it to me.

YAROSLAV

You shoot. I'll throw it myself… Take a close-up of me from below…

VASILIS

As you say, boss.

From the crowd, chicken eggs and tomatoes begin to fly. Vasilis and Yaroslav also throw eggs at the police barrier. Unexpectedly, they are replaced by stones. In response, the police begin to push the crowd, and some provocateurs engage in aggressive dialogues with employees. Skirmishes between protesters and police officers begin. A shot is heard, a police officer falls to the asphalt and writhes in pain. A police armored personnel carrier arrives and begins firing tear gas grenades. The crowd begins to disperse. The police special forces begin a harsh detention of the protesters. Yaroslav and Vasilis run away from the square home.

YAROSLAV

Did you film how I hit the police officer in the helmet with an egg?

VASILY

Yeah… Let's get out of here, the cops are starting to pack up…

YAROSLAV

There was a TV station here.

VASILY

I saw it, I hope my parents won't see us on the idiot box…

Yaroslav comes home with an empty trash can. He puts it by the door and goes into the living room. His father and grandmother are watching TV. His mother is cooking in the kitchen. Yaroslav sits down in a chair, takes out his smartphone, and starts looking at it.

YAROSLAV'S MOTHER (behind the scenes)

You're here?! Did you go to China to take out the trash?

YAROSLAV

No, I just met Vasilisa, and we had a little chat…

YAROSLAV'S MOTHER (behind the scenes)

He met someone. Who declared the quarantine?

YAROSLAV

The suckers…

YAROSLAV'S MOTHER (behind the scenes)

Of course…

YAROSLAV

The stables…

YAROSLAV'S FATHER

Is that how you answer your mother, you little shit?

YAROSLAV'S GRANDMOTHER

What are you really attached to the boy? He's growing, and you're infringing on him…

YAROSLAV'S MOTHER (behind the scenes)

You'll infringe on him… Put the bucket down and go eat… Just don't forget to wash your hands…

YAROSLAV

Okay.

Yaroslav sneezes. A close-up shows a coronavirus molecule that comes out of Yaroslav's nostril and goes into Yaroslav's grandmother's nostril.

YAROSLAV'S FATHER

And wipe your hands with antiseptic… It's on the shelf…

Father, mother, and grandmother are sitting in the living room watching the TV news.

DIRECTION

This morning, an unauthorized rally was held in the central square against the government's quarantine self-isolation, and the first coronavirus patients have started arriving at hospitals…

Grandmother gets up and goes to her bedroom.

YAROSLAV'S MOTHER

Mom, where are you going?

YAROSLAV'S GRANDMOTHER

I'm feeling hot and tired, so I'm going to take an aspirin and lie down…

YAROSLAV'S MOTHER

Will the TV show start? Should I call you?

YAROSLAV'S GRANDMOTHER

I don't know, if I don't fall asleep, then call…

YAROSLAV'S MOTHER

Well, I'll record it then. Tomorrow you'll see.

YAROSLAV'S FATHER

Where's Yarik?

Yaroslav is sitting at the computer. On the screen the face of Vasilis on video communication.

VASILIS

Well, what you ancestors, put in?

YAROSLAV

No, it was just a decel.

VASILY

And my parents arrested me…

Suddenly, YAROSLAV's angry father enters and takes the computer's power cord.

YAROSLAV'S FATHER

I told you to stop hanging out with that puppy, didn't I?

YAROSLAV

What are you doing? Give me back the cord… I haven't finished my homework yet…

YAROSLAV'S FATHER

Tomorrow morning you check, and until lunch. And after until the morning I will take the cord…

YAROSLAV

And what now I have, mother took the smart, you deprived of the computer, ripnutsya, or what?

FATHER YAROSLAV

Listen, you can speak in normal language, and not with your computer nonsense?.. That's what you said now, translate?

YAROSLAV

Yes passed…

YAROSLAV'S FATHER

Passed?!. Don't consider your parents as people at all, puppy…

CHAPTER 6

In the morning, father, mother and Yaroslav sit down at the breakfast table.

YAROSLAV'S MOTHER

Yaroslav, my son, call your grandmother.

Yaroslav gets up and leaves the kitchen.

YAROSLAV'S FATHER

Yes, it's strange, usually your mother is already at the stove, but Sednya? Maybe I'm tired, every day… There used to be people, not like you, always whining and whining…

YAROSLAV'S MOTHER

Listen, would you shut up, huh?

Yaroslav goes to his grandmother's room and sees her lying under the covers coughing.

YAROSLAV

Ba, come, ma is calling for food…

YAROSLAV'S GRANDMOTHER

Oh, grandson, I don't feel so good…

Yaroslav's mother comes in.

YAROSLAV'S GRANDMOTHER

Don't come too close, I must have gone out on the balcony after taking a shower to hang up my laundry, and I got a cold…

YAROSLAVA'S MOTHER

Mom, what's wrong? You're not yourself, you're burning up like a stove, and you're coughing suspiciously. Maybe we should call an ambulance.

YAROSLAVA'S GRANDMOTHER

No, don't worry, daughter. I've always managed to get through flu season, and I'll rest until lunch and everything will be fine…

YAROSLAV'S MOTHER

Would you like some tea with raspberry jam, or some milk with honey?

YAROSLAV'S GRANDMOTHER

Some milk with honey…

YAROSLAV is sitting in his room, doing his homework on the computer. He hears a commotion in the hallway. He looks out of the room and sees doctors wearing PPE (personal protective equipment), including a protective suit, a respirator, goggles, two pairs of gloves, and shoe covers, entering YAROSLAV's grandmother's room with a stretcher.

Doctors in PPE put on Yaroslav's grandmother a mask with manual air supply and takes a thermometer from her mouth.

DOCTOR MAN

Symptoms are similar to coronavirus, difficulty breathing, urgently hospitalize the grandmother in intensive care under NIVL. And call a second ambulance. Parents have a suspicious temperature.

YAROSLAV'S FATHER

What, is it that serious? I felt like a cheerful guy yesterday. Now there's just some kind of fatigue.

DOCTOR WOMAN

You had contact with the grandmother… In the reception you will take an express test… But by the symptoms?!. You need a two-week quarantine… You, in addition to the son, have a very high fever and dry cough. So quickly collect documents and things of first necessity.

MOTHER YAROSLAV

And what about the son? He is not 14 years old?!

DOCTOR WOMAN

I've called a social worker, and he'll be placed in an orphanage while you're in isolation.

YAROSLAV'S FATHER

Can't we take him with us?

DOCTOR MAN

No, his temperature is normal. He could infect you.

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