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Two friends from the outskirts of Yerevan, burdened by debt, risk everything to invest in a small neighborhood stall. Lacking the skills and knowledge to succeed, they lose their investment and face grave danger from a local gangster demanding repayment. Just as hope fades, the Velvet Revolution erupts, and their stall becomes a hot spot, turning them an unexpected profit from the protests. But their newfound success is short-lived as the post-revolution government, cracking down on illegality, dismantles their stall for lacking proper permits.

When a hard working soviet worker realises how disappointing his pension is, he starts talking to the Secretary General of the USSR and hanging out with the top communist figures from all over the world.

The lead character - Aram works in the enforcement service of the Ministry of Justice. Aram is an efficient and ambitious conformist, for whom human fates are just a background- a field for the realization of one's career aspirations. On the orders of service he comes in contact with the lives of various people, who for this or that reason find themselves in dramatic situations. Due to outstanding loans they face the severe reality - their property is confiscated for the benefit of the creditor in compliance with the judgment of the court. This can be houses, household appliances and even such a little thing as a hair dryer. As for Aram, he sees all these dramas on the other side of the reality. He is guided exclusively by the letter of the law and the "can-do" spirit of an officer, while all the rest is embarrassing imbroglio. It goes without saying, that he excludes the thought that the moral law can contradict the secular law. The elderly man, who, being the owner of the house, is splashing his little grandson and himself with petrol and threatens to put the house on fire, must be evicted from his paternal house upon court order... They must take away the TV set from a young mother, whose husband has left to Russia for work and hasn't got in contact for quite a long time. Day-to-day routine work and various human tragedies... It happens so that when once again evicting a family from a house, which was used as collateral, they encounter an attitude, which is completely different from what they were anticipated... Is Aram able to review his values? On the other hand Aram isn't an ungifted person. He's a dumb show master. But the best parody he makes is the Christmas roast, frozen in an ear-to-ear grin with herbs in the mouth. He can't even imagine how he gradually turns into a dead pig on someone's table...

Hero lives in a semi-basement floor in a comfort zone, eating and enjoying leisure activities at the same time daily, and is oblivious to outside world, even to the misfortune occurred before his eyes. The insensibility lasts until his quiet life is challenged.