Director Nikolai Gostiukhin on the production:

My film is based on the cult play by Ivan Vyrypayev and consists of monologues by four people, two young married couples, telling the touching story of the lives of two elderly married couples who had been lifelong friends. I set the teleplay in a therapist's office, where the two young married couples come in one by one. They tell the stories of Danny, Sandra, Albert and Margaret, who lived together as good friends and only in their old age realized the ambiguity of their life experiences. However, the young characters tell these stories for a reason. They have come here to talk about the anxieties and worries they have accumulated during their marriages through the metaphorical account of the lives of two elderly married couples. And only here in this office, will the characters be truly able to hear each other and overcome the crisis of their relationship. I came up with the idea to shoot this as teleplay, a form I had always had a special interest in. As a child I watched many television plays made by renowned Russian and Soviet directors (Efros, Tovstonogov, Lyubimov), and I am a big fan of Sidney Lumet's television play "Twelve Angry Men". My performance is done in such a way that it is in dialogue with the viewer, placing the viewer in the shoes of the therapist, to whom the characters have come to talk about their problems and anxieties. And only the viewer can decide whether in the finale the characters have managed to find mutual understanding, or whether this is the end of their relationship.