A close-up shot shows a person on a patterned rug using a brush to wet and separate pieces of paper with Russian text and images from a larger sheet. The person holds a stack of the damp papers in their left hand while using their right hand to apply the brush to the top paper, carefully peeling it off. Several detached pieces of the same paper are scattered around on the rug, and a white, possibly ceramic, object is visible in the background on the left.