Novorzhev is a small town in the Pskov region. After six in the evening, its streets are empty, and it seems that life in this place has stopped. But it boils in the House of Culture, where local residents are rehearsing a play based on a play by a Spanish playwright. The main characters poison each other with poison, try to shoot their relatives, die, writhing from convulsions, and at some point it is no longer clear where life is and where the theater is.