Heroin addict Checkie (Guga Kotetishvili) is arrested while trying to score and the police want him to entrap Ika (Irakli Ramishvili), the son of his more prosperous former classmate Zaza (Zura Sharia), now a politician. Although Checkie is reluctant to betray the young man, who has asked him to procure drugs for him even though he has never used them, Checkie's wife Nino (Rusiko Kobiashvili) cannot pay their child's school fees and they are in danger of losing their apartment (the police have promised to help his family, suggesting that their motive for entrapping the politician's son are less than noble). Checkie becomes even more conflicted about betraying Ika since the young man takes an active interest in trying to help out his financial situation (even though he hopes to profit as well). When Ika's father proves unwilling to help Checkie, Ika strikes upon the idea to kidnap and ransom the daughter of his father's best friend for a suspiciously meager amount that will take care of Checkie's financial troubles and score Ika his first hit of heroin.

After a laboriously meandering set-up (with some overly broad comedy), the film picks up once Ika and Checkie form their unlikely duo. The junkie and the delinquent become quite endearing once they express frustrated concern for each other (hats off to Kobiashvili as well, making her nagging, long-suffering character sympathetic in a handful of scenes). At this point, director Levan Koguashvili - whose previous directorial effort was the documentary WOMEN FROM GEORGIA - and his co-writers gain a better handle of the black comedy, balancing comic and tragic incidents culminating in a finale that is simultaneously bleak and hopeful.