Gennady is a musician from the city of Galich, he has been playing the accordion for over 30 years. In his youth, he was invited to almost all local weddings, funerals and other events. But times and customs have changed, now he lives a lonely life, trying to find new activities for himself. After all, the city is lively with Maslenitsa festivities, which coincided with the presidential elections in the country.

In many settlements of Armenia, the long-standing tradition of matakh has been preserved. The main meaning of the tradition is the gift of donations to God through the creation of alms to the poor. A collective portrait of the inhabitants of one of these settlements, where life flows in makeshift houses close to each other. The act of donation becomes a metaphor for a forgotten and mysterious place.