At last, Theresa is fixed by a fierce wanderer she conveys home to put off dealing with more convoluted feelings. She makes an easygoing comment that he takes to be an issue of his masculinity, a question with which he is as of now battling, and he assaults her and wounds her over and again, allowing her cool and to sit unbothered in the dingy minimal world she has made for herself. Rivulets' last picture is a disconnected sideways solidified shot of Theresa's face, blue and still, quickly subsiding into the obscurity.
Vasily Pichul's Little Vera, made in Russia 11 years after the fact, additionally concentrates on a young lady as yet living at home and attempting to locate a free personality that has not been forced on her by her folks or society's desires. Vera (Natalya Negoda) has quite recently completed secondary school and is sitting tight inertly for the school acknowledgment that will prepare her for a profession as a phone administrator. She invests her energy smoking on the gallery, making an effort not to hear her folks' uproarious grievances from inside the flat about her absence of inspiration and unwillingness to do their offering.
Vera is a significantly more uninvolved animal than Theresa toward the begin of the film, releasing the world on around her before she begins to make some move of her own. For a significant part of the motion picture, she even wears a solitary outfit, a red and white striped shirt and white plastic studs that highlight to intense white stripes in her generally dull hair. The ensemble shifts pretty much nothing, aside from when she is at home, when she loses her hoops and replaces the showy shirt with a tore flower sleeveless undertaking that mirrors her mom's vague house dress. Vera goes through her days with her companion Lena, staying nearby the recreation center, viewing the dull manufacturing plant town around them with lack of engagement and smoking cigarettes. Andrei, a schoolmate who is going to join the naval force, really likes Vera, in any case, similar to Theresa's James, the way that he enjoys her an is adequate to her folks appears to obliterate any interest he may hold for Vera.
Rather, she sets her sights on the new kid around the local area, a ne'er-do-very much named Sergei, who ends up being a companion of her sibling Victor. Victor is glad to have an old amigo turn up, until he understands this rebel has his eye all alone sister.
Vera, whose lone maxim is by all accounts a line from her most loved novel, 'Esteem the blamelessness of youth,' happily offers herself to Sergei, and the two choose to wind up plainly locked in. While they do appear to share a real warmth, their choice has all the earmarks of being minimal more than an impulse and a motion to challenge Vera's folks.
Vera quickly moves her new fiancT into her room, testing her folks to state anything. She discloses to her mom she is pregnant, a lie ascertained to decrease the fury of specialist.
Sergei ends up being the last bit of excess that will be tolerated in the family unit. In spite of Victor's endeavors to get his sister to carry on and his future brother by marriage to adjust, strains construct. In one particularly warmed evening, Vera's smashed father cuts Sergei in the tummy and sends him to the doctor's facility. The family then tries to get Vera to state it was a mischance or self-preservation, to shield the father from going to prison, and Victor secures a colossal supply of sedatives to help level out his sister's fierceness at the way things have gone.
After an awful excursion to the shoreline, intended to settle family emotions yet finishing in a blinding rainstorm that splashes and debilitates the entire family, Vera tries to converse with Sergei yet is dismissed, Feeling surrendered and assaulted by everybody around her, Vera flies into a fierceness and tries to discover comfort in a huge overdose of pills and vodka. In any case, Victor discovers her and constrains her to upchuck the pills before they can produce results.
The intruding Victor then needs to come back to Moscow with a specific end goal to keep his occupation, and Sergei, scared and in container, discovers his way back to Vera. He has no place else to go, and his dread has transformed him into a young man. She comforts him in the obscurity.
The film closes with death, similarly as Looking for Mr. Goodbar did, however for this situation it is not the demise of its champion. Rather, Vera's dad sits alone at the kitchen table late in the night. He feels another agony in his trunk and topples off his seat. Pichul positions his camera so that lone the man's legs can be viewed as he lies on the floor and takes one last, shivering breath.