Not venturing far from his own reality, legendary filmmaker, Kossakovsky has created an elegant, amusing piece of visual poetry out of the most unexpected subject matter. Not moving from the few square metres of his street-facing window, he records a year in the life of an inconsequential street in St Petersburg. Although the main fascination is a year-long, increasingly comical quest to repair burst pipes, other remarkable, yet tiny, events occur including dogs congregating, lovers falling over each other in the rain, men breaking for freedom, a man waiting for his lover with flowers, and municipal workers scrubbing the exteriors of buildings. This elegiac piece captures in a timeless dance the obscure and banal minutiae of the everyday life of complete strangers set to a mixture of vaudeville and classical music.