After the defeat of the 1905 revolution, the underground fighter Gio is sentenced to 25 years of hard labor. However, he manages to escape eight years later. Having lost his wife and daughter during this time, he decides to take revenge on the gendarmes. Gio's younger brother joins him in the mountains...

A journey in a second-class passenger car in Soviet Georgia. People are squeezed into cramped seats, some of them trying to get comfortable on lying places - shelves. The main "entertainment" is an elegant blond man who claims he is an actor and has traveled the world. His stories mesmerize most of the passengers. Nevertheless, there is a man of stern appearance who differs from the masses. He travels with a trained sparrow hidden in his coat and does not believe the tales of the so-called actor, and openly declares it. The men get into a fight...

Nicolas is an artist, a filmmaker who merely wants to express himself and whom everyone wishes to reduce to silence. When he first starts out in Georgia, the "ideologists" hope to gag him, concerned that his work does not follow the set rules. In the face of their determination, Nicolas leaves his homeland for France - the land of freedom and democracy. But the "state of grace" will not last long.

这一疯狂而讽刺的历史题材作品中充满可怖的铁器，幽默地描绘了欧洲几个时代的历史图景。电影使用同样的演员饰演不同时期相似的人物。 中世纪一个非常类似于格鲁吉亚的小国家，国王Vano出征前将王后Eka用贞操带锁住，他不知道王后自己有钥匙，她背叛了他。 来到1930年代早期，另一个Vano，由同一个演员出演，是一个非常低级的盗贼，但他冷不丁掌握了权力。共产主义时期的苏联一位警察决定让儿子知道他是怎么谋生的，有一天带他参观父亲是怎样殴打折磨那些无辜的人。 当今社会，巴黎的军火贩子大吃大喝，为他们致命交易的脏物而兴高采烈。 电影并不是按顺序讲述的。它是对Iosseliani的同胞们的弱点所做的有趣的探究。它告诉人们，无论服装和政体怎样变化，人类的欲望和贪婪都不会改变。====正太猫