Since childhood, Valentin was afraid of the New Year. Because he wasn't there. For five years as a child, he celebrated New Year's Eve in a hospital ward, in which the nanny turned off the light after the chimes struck. And wrapping his head in a blanket, he remembered his mom and dad and his sister, merrily spinning around the New Year tree. And every New Year in his adult life tormented him with these memories, and fear and melancholy came again. And somehow accidentally jumping out of the train for a minute, he fell behind and was forced to spend New Year's Eve in a remote station village.