"The 40th Day" is one of those short films whose plot can be defined in a few sentences, but the filmmaker tried to place the main burden of meaning not on the story, but on the situation, the mise-en-scene and the narrative pauses. A woman who has no children, goes with her husband to a cemetery to perform a ritual that according to local belief can lead to pregnancy.

"The 40th Day" is one of those short films whose plot can be defined in a few sentences, but the filmmaker tried to place the main burden of meaning not on the story, but on the situation, the mise-en-scene and the narrative pauses. A woman who has no children, goes with her husband to a cemetery to perform a ritual that according to local belief can lead to pregnancy.