Birthday

Birthday is a story about three patients staying in an abandoned mental hospital ruined by a civil war, among bits of the past.

The young patient is trying to convince the old one to make friends with the third one, while the two have been in a supposedly long conflict over ideological issues.
It's the third patient's birthday, and the young one is trying to arrange a celebration and to finally reconcile his mates.
The starving patients searching for food for the festive dinner make most of the film's tragicomic plot. The film’s opening scene shows the young man failing to catch a rat!
They have long and fruitless argument on who is to blame for the war.
Here comes the film's main message: everyone is guilty when nobody is.
The young patient leaves the room to invite the third one to ‘cut his birthday cake’ and celebrate. Actually, there is no real cake, just an empty plate, but the characters’ mental conditions make them believe there is one, and very tasty!
The young patient enters the third one’s room and sees he's already died. He returns to their “dining” room and sees the second one has died too - after all, they have been starving long.
Here we understand the young man’s plan: he planned for the three of them to die after a peaceful celebration, to die as friends overcoming their ideological differences. In his illusive world, he thinks he has “poisoned” the “birthday cake” he has cooked. He is sure
the second patient has died because he has “eaten the poisoned cake” while the true reason of his death must be natural.
Now alone, the young man decides to join his friends. He sits down, “cuts off a slice of the poisoned cake” and “eats” it. Then he blows off the only candle and waits in the dark. Cannons start far away. He is still alive when we leave him.
In the closing scene, a rat (may be the very same one) crosses the frame as we see the hospital garden with a run-down statue and cannonade far away.