An elderly grandma (Galina Vishnevskaya) visits her grandson (Vasily Shevtsov) on an unnamed army base – where this is situated is never made clear from the narrative, although doubtless Russians would divine the setting from the accents (the press notes indicate it is Chechnya). While she is there, she wanders the base, chatting to soldiers and generally making a bit of a nuisance of herself. She briefly leaves its confines and slips into conversation with a group of local women.