The story focuses on two things, an unusual set of 18th-century Limoges china, and a 19th century polished portrait. As these products are passed, sold, or stolen from one personality to another, a giddy round dancing of excess begins to materialize, one which suggests that if background doesn't duplicate itself, it absolutely rhymes. Together with co-writer Gérard Brach, whose various other co-writing credit ratings include Repulsion and also Tess, Otar Iosseliani utilizes a feather-light touch to reveal the futility of course as well as caste, making a bagatelle of the problems of abundant and also poor alike.