A makeshift working crew consisting of a wannabe boss Yegor (Maxim Demchenko), a middle-aged boozer Kolya (Anatoly Gushin) and a rookie Roma (Vitt Ray) is tasked with the finishing touches on a luxurious villa. The deadline is approaching, the pressure from the boss from above is piling, but one of the rooms in the house keeps shrinking overnight. As it is usually the case with the science fiction-infused horror movies, there is not a simple explanation (like the un-solid foundations). It must be something from out of this world, something that appears either with flashing lights and creaking sounds, or with complete darkness and silence.
Exit, written and directed by Ivan Basov, is a science fiction / horror short film which is being shown at HÖFF (usually taking place in Haapsalu, Estonia, but moved online for the obvious reasons this year) in Little Nightmares sidebar for fantastic shorts. Although the development of the idea and the execution is not perfect, the idea itself about a room that offers the chance of a reset in life is strong enough to justify its place in the selection.
