This film of Bardin's has only just been made available online (published on Soyuzmultfilm's YouTube and VK channels, of all places - this marks his first time working together with Soyuzmultfilm since 1990, I believe), although he's made two more since then - "Ave Maria" (funded 2021, finished 2023) and "Everlasting Lament" (funded and finished 2024) - and is in middle of crowdfunding another one (Russian Waltz). I think all of Bardin's films since his 2010 feature "The Ugly Duckling" seem to have roughly the same scaffolding: take one or several pieces of famous classical music, take some sort of didactic message formed from Bardin's impressions of the society around him, and play it out wordlessly using puppet animation closely synchronized to the music. Actually, I would even say that he's been doing that since the 1990s, but there used to be more other elements involved, more attention to character and story, to the joy of movement and art, and I think it led to some of his best work (1990s-2000s). Whereas his more recent productions have become more spartan, more focused... but also more artificial-feeling as a result, almost more akin to student films. I watched this and thought near the beginning "kids don't play like that - sitting symmetrically on either side and robotically putting sand into their buckets". But being in time to the music seemed to be more important than having characters act realistically. To compare, his earlier film Chucha 3 (2004) also had a little boy whose movements were closely timed to the music, sometimes a bit artificially, yet the final effect was more natural and heartfelt.

The final didactic message is that "normal", "rich" and "poor/criminal" elements of society should cooperate in order to all be collectively better off.