Christmas Eve, the Soviet era, everyone is working. At the State Opera and Ballet Theatre, the longest performance, Swan Lake, is coming to an end, in which Rūta dances a swan in the corps de ballet. After the courtain closes, she quickly walks to her changing room ahead of the other artists.Inside, the typical backstage life of ballerinas unfolds—dresser Marytė, like a mother, takes care of the ballerinas (Rožė, Nina, and Nora), who return one by one after the performance. They wash up, change clothes, and as they prepare to go home, they discuss new productions, love interests, and the children's performance tomorrow morning. However, this evening is different—Rūta notices some kūčiukai (traditional Lithuanian Christmas eve pastries) left on her table, which she hides in her pockets before leaving. Rožė opens a bottle of "Sovietskaja šampanskaja" (Soviet champagne), and they all make a toast, but only Marytė, Rožė, and Rūta understand what it’s for. Rūta hurries out of the room, and on the stairs, she meets the ballet director and the répétiteur, who inform Rūta that in tomorrow's performance Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, she will have to dance the role of the little rabbit. Though Rūta has never danced the rabbit role and doesn’t know the choreography, she cannot object. At the theatre exit, she meets her boyfriend Raima. Rūta secretly gives him one of the kūčiukai.

Gailė Butvilaitė is an actress who graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (course supervisor – Oskaras Koršunovas). She works at the Lithuanian National Drama Theatre, OKT / Vilnius City Theatre, and also writes film and television scripts in Lithuania and Spain. She is currently studying for a master's degree in screenwriting at the University of Madrid. She debuted as a director and screenwriter with her first short film "December 24, 1977".