Tolla takes out a contract on himself and then changes his mind.
Tolla is an unemployed translator whose wife is leaving him. Despondent and weak, he submits to the suggestion of an acquantance to have a contract placed on the man that his wife is seeing. Instead, however, he arranges for the hit to be placed on himself. Before the contract is executed, he develops a relationship with a prostitute, and then changes his mind. In order to survive he takes the obvious course of action, which turns out to have possibly been unnecessary, and then he must deal with the guilt.—Thomas Barber
In Kyiv, Ukraine, the loser Anatoli is a penniless unemployed translator and his wife is leaving him. When Anatoli meets by chance his former friend Dima, he offers one thousand dollars to Anatoli to commit perjury in order that his boss gets the divorce from his wife. Further, he suggests that Anatoli hires the hit man Kostia to assassin his wife's boyfriend. Anatoli is drunk and accepts the deal. However he regrets and he puts the contract on himself instead. When Anatoli meets the prostitute Vika, a.k.a. Lena, he changes his mind and hires the killer Ivan to protect him. Ivan kills Kostia and Anatoli learns that he was married with Marina and with a baby boy. Now Anatoli feels guilty and seeks out Marina to sympathize with her.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
