Tina was returning home from the evening watch. She walked slowly through the streets of the city, filled with people sitting in cafes and on benches under plane trees. Children were running along the sidewalk, driving small drones that photographed their dads and moms, who waved at the camera with a loving smile.
The little old lady attracted few people to her. Sometimes she sat down on a bench and, slightly squinting, looked at the cozy picture of a peaceful, friendly city.
Some little children would run up and hand her a bar of chocolate or an apple. Tina took the treat and gave the kids such a smile that a cheerful song about dancing apples and strawberries at a fruit party sounded in their ears.
Suddenly, from the large window of the cafe, near which she sat down on a bench, a man with a long black beard looked at her and began to laugh, pointing at her with his finger. "Look at this horrible, hunched old woman! How can you be so scary!" The cafe's patrons began to look back at her, but the bearded man's taunts were supported only by two men and a woman in a pink evening dress sitting at the same table with him.
Other visitors reproached the insolent man, shamed him, said that it was not good to behave like that, to insult an elderly person. But the noisy company did not listen to them, they continued to laugh loudly, pointing at Tina with their fingers. Then she opened her eyes wide and shot a lightning glance in the direction of the offender.
His eyes suddenly itched and tears flowed, and hordes of brown ants and fat green flies crawled over his body. They got into his ears, into his mouth and filled plates with beef and fried potatoes. The man was waving his arms in horror, trying to shake off the insects. He grabbed a plate of food and threw it aside with all his might. The beef got into the neckline of his companion's evening dress, and the potatoes scattered all over the dress. Flies crawled over her bare arms and neck. The lady tried to drive away the flies and threw away a piece of beef, which fell at the feet of the waiter, who was carrying a bottle of champagne to a nearby table. The waiter slipped and fell, the bottle hit the bearded man in the head.
Meanwhile, Tina sneaked into the cafe and sat down at a table in the corner. She watched the scene with genuine curiosity. Every object she followed with her eyes did somersaults in the air and fell on someone's head. A small hammer rattled in the pocket of her cardigan, counting out the points. One, two, three... Oh, the weekly plan has been exceeded! "The Big" should be pleased.
When the bottle of champagne hit the bearded man in the nose, he suddenly saw a beautiful girl in the far corner laughing at him and showing him her fingers in the shape of the letter V. The man closed his eyes, and when he opened them, the girl at the corner table was gone. Opposite, a lady in a pink dress was screaming loudly, with green flies crawling over it.
The police entered the cafe...
A minute later, Tina was home.