Three young men lounge shoulder to shoulder on a sofa in a shabby wallpapered flat, joking and passing around a toilet seat that one of them carries out into the hall and shows off, with some shoving and a cap yanked down over a friend's head. The scene cross-cuts to a military recruitment office where a big-mustached officer sits under an Armenian flag lecturing the camera while a young conscript in camouflage fills out forms beside him.