As the high-pitched, hypnotic sound of the crystal glasses shatters the silence, it slowly seeps into the gray streets choked by money and the grind of the system. In this short animated film, Andrey Khrzhanovsky lays bare, through a sharp allegory, how capitalism grinds down the human spirit. A stranger, following the melody, stubbornly continues to play his notes in a town swallowed up by bureaucracy and greed. As the question of whether art and music are enough to shake a rotten system hangs in the air, every line on the canvas draws the viewer into a dark fairy tale.