A scrap metal collection drive is taking place at a school in Vilnius. This ambition, the same characters, the same place of action link all three novellas of "Merry Stories" - jokes, anecdotes.
Film - Reflection. The characters are the people who survived the war, the horror of the fascist concentration camps and the danger of suffocation, as well as those whose parents past is known only theoretically
A young boy Andrius learns a magic words which open a door to another world.
Kaunas, Lithuania, 1972... Young people are sitting in the Hotel "America" basement and listen to Western Radio.