THE CLINCH

Fedorov is the school literature teacher and he had a hard day. He has worked in two shifts, then has assisted school meeting, then the school director has given him a talking-to and Fedorov’s wife has started repair in their small apartment. On top of everything a strange unknown young woman follows him on his way home. Getting closer she snatches out his bag and runs away. Fedorov tries to catch her up without success and throws into her a piece of steel. The thief falls down, cries, complains of her hard life and then suddenly starts to blame Fedorov in bringing her girl-friend to a suicide. She threatens him with arrival of her fiance-gangster. Fedorov considers the woman to be insane and is going to leave. He doesn’t have any suspicion that it’s just a beginning of the dangerous acquaintance.