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Stepan wants to leave the apartment he shares with his girlfriend Julie and her father Hynek-a washed-up musician who drifts through life with a beer in hand and unsolicited opinions that grate on everyone around him. Their strained domestic situation simmers with tension, but it's not just their personal lives unraveling. The film they are making together is collapsing even faster. "Cut." "Action." The clapperboard snaps. Scenes begin and end abruptly, breaking the illusion of cinema. The actors shift between roles and real emotions, blurring the line between the scripted and the spontaneous. What starts as a behind-the-scenes look at a crumbling shoot soon reveals deeper fractures. The first rupture hits when Hynek lashes out, angry that the crew is censoring his swearing-demanding his right to speak freely, regardless of the chaos it causes. From there, the boundaries erode. Each scene becomes less a performance and more a confrontation. Fiction begins to melt into reality: real arguments erupt, hidden resentments surface, and power dynamics shift unpredictably. Relationships are tested, alliances break down, and the camera keeps rolling-even when everything else is falling apart. The result is a spiraling, self-destructive collision of egos, ideals, and aesthetics. The film begins to devour itself, losing not only its original story, but even the coherence that holds it together. In the end, it's not just the characters who can't live together-it's the film itself that cannot survive. A stylized meta-grotesque about the collapse of fiction, the violence of expression, and the impossibility of coexistence-on set and in life.

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