Sasha loves her mother with a wonderful love. He sees a dream where they are happy. But the illusory world collapses as soon as it wakes up. He is woken by a friend sitting on a windowsill and yelling from the yard. This alcoholic father offends his mother. Sasha runs out to protect her like a faithful dog, pointing at the offender, but he hits him too.

Playing warriors with friends in the forest, Sashko becomes an involuntary witness to the erotic connection of his mother and forester. Anger and jealousy push him to a terrible act: at night he sets fire to the forester's house and tosses his father's clock, taken from his hand, into the crime scene. When his father is accused of murder and taken away, Sashko thinks he has lost all competitors, but ...