Room Temperature

Lena opens a window in her Moscow apartment and notices the outside air feels warmer than the air inside. This peculiar imbalance becomes the starting point for her silent observation of the neighbors in her building, whose lives unfold behind thin walls. She hears the arguments of a young couple one floor above, watches an elderly man from the next entrance step onto his balcony at the same time every day. The 2025 drama transforms a standard Khrushchyovka building into a microcosm of human relationships, where warmth and cold are measured not in degrees, but in degrees of alienation and fleeting moments of connection. The story unfolds over a single week, noting the slightest shifts in the rhythm of the building.