Borya documents his search for Maya, his missing girlfriend, as a strange epidemic turns people into dog-like creatures. Through his fragmented memories, he recalls moments of a crumbling world: a colleague’s transformation at the factory, empty shelves in stores, and a woman praying in a church for her infected husband.

As Borya delves into his past, flashes of his volatile, abusive relationship with Maya emerge — addiction, violence, fleeting tenderness. In a church, he meets a silent priest who, without words, urges him to search for Maya among the transformed. Borya ventures through the church, facing his fears, but finds no trace of her.

At a hospital, a nurse takes him captive. In a seizure, memories flood — Maya’s bleeding wrists, his rage, a neighbor embodying the epidemic’s spread, and soldiers breaking down his door. The nurse revives him, grounding him in the present, as the infection slowly takes hold.

Borya reaches a decaying house where Maya once stayed. The old man who lives there has locked his transformed daughter in a cage, consumed by fear and control. He gives Borya Maya’s old T-shirt, urging him to follow her scent. Is Borya still seeking Maya, or is he chasing a ghost from the past?

Following the scent across the fields, Borya finds Maya and her lover, both now transformed. A brief struggle ensues, and Borya realizes she is beyond his reach, part of a world he no longer belongs to.

Returning to the house, Borya opens the cage, freeing the old man’s daughter. He lowers himself to all fours, not in defeat, but in recognition — sometimes letting go is the only way to save oneself.